Severity Quotations | Page 2

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

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

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.