Famous quotes containing the word severity:
“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“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)