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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
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
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
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
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