“ I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a degout given by satiety. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 3.4K
“ He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away. ”
- Marcia Moore- Copy
- 2K
“ If I do, the whole thing falls apart. It fails. The illusion is in my head. ”
- Ruth Rendell- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ”
- Paul Cezanne- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ”
- Jessamyn West- Copy
- 155
“ All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ”
- E. R. Beadle- Copy
- 249
“ The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 696
“ I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 1.8K
“ What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 3.9K
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