Severity Quotes

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

If you wage war,
do it energetically and with severity.
This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.