Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”
—William James (1843–1916)