Severe

Famous quotes containing the word severe:

“It’s unthinkable not to love—you’d have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you’d have to be Philip Larkin.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

“Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

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