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title: "130 Severity Quotes by 111 authors"
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> [The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-wright/the-severity-of-the-itch-is-proportional-to-the-reach/)

[Steven Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-wright/)

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> [Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-francis-de-sales/better-make-penitents-by-gentleness-than-hypocrites-by-severity/)

[Saint Francis de Sales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-francis-de-sales/)

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> [Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-corneille/severity-is-allowable-where-gentleness-has-no-effect/)

[Pierre Corneille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-corneille/)

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> [Kindness effects more than severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aesop/kindness-effects-more-than-severity/)

[Aesop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aesop/)

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> [In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-compassionate-men-severity-is-a-virtue/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Excessive severity misses its own aim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/excessive-severity-misses-its-own-aim/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonse-karr/many-people-think-that-virtue-consists-of-severity-towards-others/)

[Alphonse Karr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonse-karr/)

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> [Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/ridicule-is-often-employed-with-more-power-and-success-than-severity/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/compassionate-doctors-sometimes-lie-to-patients-about-the-severity-of/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-lord-tennyson/i-thought-i-could-not-breathe-in-that-fine-air-that-pure-severity-of/)

[Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-lord-tennyson/)

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> [Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/truth-from-the-mouth-of-an-honest-man-and-severity-from-a-good/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/summer-as-my-friend-coleridge-waggishly-writes-has-set-in-with-its/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

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> [Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-peel/much-is-said-about-english-severity-but-not-a-word-about-irish/)

[Robert Peel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-peel/)

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> [The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-campbell-morgan/the-severity-of-the-law-of-god-is-the-necessary-sequence-of-his/)

[G. Campbell Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-campbell-morgan/)

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> [To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-prevent-evil-is-the-great-end-of-government-the-end-for-which/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/sobriety-severity-and-self-respect-are-the-foundations-of-all-true/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-had-dreamed-my-life-for-nearly-fifty-years-i-am-about-to-be-fifty/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/men-have-commonly-more-pleasure-in-the-criticism-which-hurts-than-in/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-actual-state-is-corrupt-good-men-must-not-obey-the-laws-too/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-rousseau/the-severity-of-penalties-is-only-a-vain-resource-invented-by-little/)

[Henri Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-rousseau/)

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> [Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mercy-otis-warren/public-emergencies-may-require-the-hand-of-severity-to-fall-heavily/)

[Mercy Otis Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mercy-otis-warren/)

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> [ Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of \[British\] men-a morality… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ardrey/is-it-possible-that-the-environmental-severity-of-the-1930s-induced/)

[Robert Ardrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ardrey/)

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> [Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/not-by-constraint-or-severity-shall-you-have-access-to-true-wisdom/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcleod/i-become-quite-inhibited-particularly-when-i-do-comedy-i-won-t-there/)

[Ian McLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcleod/)

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> [When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-a-uniform-exercise-of-kindness-to-prisoners-on-our-part-has-been/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/as-christ-s-ministry-drew-to-its-close-its-severity-and-its/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

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> [I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-farrakhan/i-am-giving-them-a-warning-and-a-guidance-from-god-to-help-them-to-do/)

[Louis Farrakhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-farrakhan/)

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> [Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-tecumseh-sherman/many-and-many-a-person-in-georgia-asked-me-why-we-did-not-go-to-south/)

[William Tecumseh Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-tecumseh-sherman/)

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> [Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/never-lose-your-self-respect-nor-be-too-familiar-with-yourself-when/)

[Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/)

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> [I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-paul-stevens/i-am-aware-that-many-object-to-the-severity-of-my-language-but-is-3/)

[John Paul Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-paul-stevens/)

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> [Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-trotsky/actually-the-decision-was-not-only-expedient-but-necessary-the/)

[Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-trotsky/)

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> [But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/but-this-inestimable-privilege-was-soon-violated-with-the-knowledge/)

[Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/)

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> [Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this \[step by step, from humans to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/perhaps-no-order-of-mammals-presents-us-with-so-extraordinary-a/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norm-macdonald/jealousy-seldom-punishes-with-the-severity-it-suffers/)

[Norm MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norm-macdonald/)

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> [Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/ridicule-often-cuts-the-knot-where-severity-fails/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [Summer has set in with its usual severity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/summer-has-set-in-with-its-usual-severity/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> [Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/oh-i-hate-the-cheap-severity-of-abstract-ethics/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The severity of the laws prevents their execution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-severity-of-the-laws-prevents-their-execution/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Within the realms of what goes around, resides the magnitude and severity of what comes around.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandeep-n-tripathi/within-the-realms-of-what-goes-around-resides-the-magnitude-and/)

[Sandeep N. Tripathi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandeep-n-tripathi/)

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> [It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/it-is-better-to-err-by-excess-of-mercy-than-by-excess-of-severity/)

[Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/)

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## Top authors on Severity

- [Samuel Johnson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/severity/samuel-johnson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/severity/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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