Severe

Famous quotes containing the word severe:

“One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“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 (1826–1877)