Famous quotes containing the word severity:
“In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“A Man who always acts in the Severity of Wisdom, or the Haughtiness of Quality, seems to move in a personated Part: It looks too Constrained and Theatrical for a Man to be always in that Character which distinguishes him from others.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)