Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

I aim to bring a little pain, and a little roughness to what I do.

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

Let's not talk punishment.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Americans should be treated as a naughty spaniel. If it snaps at you, hit it across the face.

Punish the first insult: because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others.

If you ever keep [Vice President] Hubert [Humphrey] waiting again, I'll kick your ass down that hall.

To correct senseless people, the sword has to be taken up.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.