Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;—”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)

“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)