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)

    Then the justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lined,
    With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And so he plays his part.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)