Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)