Quotes by Severity Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. Horace severityemployedridicule Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. Johann Kaspar Lavater severityendsjudging Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. Joseph Addison severityfablesinstruction If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman. Napoleon Bonaparte severitywarway Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers. Norm MacDonald severityjealousysuffering Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. Pierre Corneille severitygentlenesseffects Excessive severity misses its own aim. Publilius Syrus severityaimmissing Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity. Saint Francis de Sales severitygentlenesshypocrite The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach. Steven Wright severityhumorfunny
