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Severity Quotes

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

Steven Wright
Funny, Humor, Severity

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

Saint Francis de Sales
Hypocrite, Severity, Gentleness

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Pierre Corneille
Effects, Severity, Gentleness
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Héraclius, I, 1, 1922.

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
War, Way, Severity

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

Joseph Addison
Fables, Instruction, Severity
Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.24

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Judging, Ends, Severity
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Horace
Ridicule, Employed, Severity

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Publilius Syrus
Missing, Aim, Severity

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

Norm MacDonald
Jealousy, Suffering, Severity

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