Harsh Language

Famous quotes containing the words harsh and/or language:

“The usual complaint is: I have no other way of earning a living. The harsh reply can be: Do you have to live?”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)

“He never doubts his genius; it is only he and his God in all the world. He uses language sometimes as greatly as Shakespeare; and though there is not much straight grain in him, there is plenty of tough, crooked timber.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)