Harsh

Something harsh is unpleasantly rough, severe or cruel. Quotes Abandoning harsh speech, he refrains from it. He speaks whatever is blameless, pleasing to the ear, agreeable, reaching the heart, urbane, pleasing and attractive to the multitude. Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 1 (Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada)), verse 1.9, pp. 68-69 I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. William Lloyd Garrison, Salutatory of the Liberator, Volume I. No. 1. (1 January 1831). Even in the harshest places there is still wonder and beauty. Rebecca Helm, in a Twitter post, quoted in Newly discovered 'glitter worms' dance and fight one another underwater (May 14, 2020) by Bonnie Burton, CNET Never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well. John Ross Macduff, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert' Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256. Nay, now you are too flatAnd mar the concord with too harsh a descant. William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 94. For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender. Umar, as quoted in Al Farooq, Umar (1944) by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Ch. 5, p. 123 I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak. I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground. Umar, as quoted in Al Farooq, Umar (1944) by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Ch. 5, p. 124 External links harsh harshness Category:Themes