Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

    “struggled scarce—
    Consented, and was dead—

    And We—We placed the Hair—
    And drew the Head erect—
    And then an awful leisure was
    Belief to regulate—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “What use soever be made of truth, yet truth is truth, and now the question is not, what is fit to be preached, but what is true.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)