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Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words. — Alexandre Dumas

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom. — Pietro Metastasio

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it. — Vahan Zanoyan

The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are. — Evan Meekins

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. — Mahatma Gandhi

The boy River had grown into Styx the man and, despite his flaws and his harshness, he was all I wanted. All I had ever wanted. — Tillie Cole

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. — Bruno Bauer

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent. — Eula Biss

Harshness is the enemy of gratitude. — Emma J. Bell

It's the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn't there, we would have nothing to live for. — Scarlett Dawn

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended. — Hugh Blair

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. — Mahmoud Darwish

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. — Sloan Wilson

Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life. — Lorraine Heath

Being near him was like being in a cloud, making my vision blur and taking away some of reality's harshness with its mist. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

But even in the wealth of spring, he remembered the harshness of this country. It is a cunning place, he thought, a place of dangers, after all. — John Ehle

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. — David Blunkett

The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. — Sivananda

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness. — Pema Chodron

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. — Chinua Achebe

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group. — Henry Bonilla

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. — Michel De Montaigne

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance. — Nuala O'Faolain

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance. — Nuala O'Faolain

when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . . — Peter Kreeft

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. — Ihara Saikaku

Conviction without experience makes for harshness. — Flannery O'Connor

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..
Morgan MacDonnell — Teresa Medeiros

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile — Margaret Mitchell

When you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ... — John Geddes

The calendrical harshness of nature is nothing to the boundless cruelty of history. — Joseph Roth

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation. — Seneca The Younger

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless. — Franz Grillparzer

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face. — Coco Chanel