Harsh Quotes

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Those who are not bettered by kind treatment, or moved by soft words, must be brought under by the application of stern and rigorous punishment.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.

[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

The truth can be a harsh and cruel reality.

Be bloody bold and resolute.

And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.

The methods that our comrades have at hand are too primitive, none of these weapons is any answer for their big machete blades, ax heads and cold steel weapons. We must be as harsh as them and show absolutely no mercy.

Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.

Evan Solomon: Just for the record that's pretty harsh stuff..

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.

You become hard when you carry out such orders.

Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:
None please the fancy, who offend the ear.

This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.