Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

    “To-morrow,” Mrs. Viveash interrupted him, “will be as awful as to-day.” She breathed it like a truth from beyond the grave prematurely revealed, expiringly from her death-bed within.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)