Hardness Quotes
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.
William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
"Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.
William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspere”, p.598