Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)