Severe

Famous quotes containing the word severe:

    At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
    Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

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

    from deep in the dark head
    his smile glowing
    outward into the
    room’s severe twilight,
    he lies....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)