Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

    struggled scarce—
    Consented, and was dead—

    And We—We placed the Hair—
    And drew the Head erect—
    And then an awful leisure was
    Belief to regulate—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)