Famous quotes containing the word severe:
“At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (17921873)
“A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)
“A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amount of hard work is too severe for it.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
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