Famous quotes containing the word severe:
“Its unthinkable not to loveyoud have a severe nervous breakdown. Or youd have to be Philip Larkin.”
—Lawrence Durrell (19121990)
“A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amount of hard work is too severe for it.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
“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 (16721719)
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