Quotes About Illusion

Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn't actually exist past the confines of your psyche.

Real life can never have a written lie all over it.

The devil doesn't come to you with a red face and horns, he comes to you disguised as everything you've ever wanted.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

There are some things over which we may lose faith if we have confidence in God's power only. There is so much that looks like the mighty power of God that is not.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

You think people open their eyes just because you tell them to look? There's no happily-ever-after on this. You're dreaming.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.

First appearance deceives many.

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Even if their magic is of the flesh? I cannot say if there are spells and curses, but I have known enchantment in my life.