Severity Quotes
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Severity Quotes & Sayings
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We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
— David Sheff
Whenever we suffer - no matter what the severity of our suffering is - we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.
— Alex Pattakos
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
— Richard Dawkins
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is a correlation between the severity of a person's moods and a lack of self-knowledge.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Excessive severity misses its own aim.
— Publilius Syrus
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
— Tacitus
The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
— Steven Wright
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
— George Bernard Shaw
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
— William Hazlitt
Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.
— Norm MacDonald
There seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.
— Hans F. Sennholz
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity ... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
— Samuel Johnson
The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.
— G. Campbell Morgan
You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.
— David Foster Wallace
I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our passions may be compared to certain slavesthe more severity we show them, the better they obey us. — Norm MacDonald
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
— Pierre Corneille
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
— C.J. Mahaney
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'
— Chris Colfer
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
— Charles De Montesquieu
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
— Joseph Addison
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
— Samuel Johnson
It is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.
— John E. Sarno
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
— William Wells Brown
We are all mental cases at some time or another. You are, I am, everybody. It's usually a matter of frequency, severity, and timing.
— William J. Coughlin
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
— Cesare Beccaria
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
— Henry David Thoreau
How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it.
— Christine Caine
she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy. Yet
— John Van Der Kiste
In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908).
— John Peter Nettl
When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
— George Eliot
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
— Felix Frankfurter
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
— Matthew Arnold
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
