Severity

Famous quotes containing the word severity:

“No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“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)