Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

    “The awful shadow of some unseen Power
    Floats though unseen among us, visiting
    This various world with as inconstant wing
    As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)