Quotes About Illusion

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist.

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist." )

Ethics is a dream, and tenderness a daytime phantasm, lost when night comes.

It had all been an illusion, Lucien knew. The buildings, the arches, the sweeping, graceful lines. All this time he had been worshipping a facade of concrete and glass. Lucien

Somehow the United States has become a nation with a permanent air of unreality and yet, by law, custom, or magic, has managed to severely restrict the choice of fantastic roles available to players in this unreality. Halloween is the last night left.

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

whose foundation, being fraud, illusion, credulity, and infatuation, fell to the ground as soon as the artful management of its directors was discovered.

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

Horse was already in the heart of the Trojans. (Cheval était déjà dans le cœur des Troyens.)

The drunkard who is colorblind still sees where is the wine. (L'ivrogne qui est daltonien - Voit quand même où est le vin.)

The killer feels invulnerable. In this, he is vulnerable. (Le tueur se croit invulnérable. En cela, il est vulnérable)

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

The path of truth has meadows of falsity. (Le chemin de la vérité A des prairies de fausseté.)"

They have no heart attack, since they have no heart. (De crise cardiaque ils n'ont, - Puisque de cœur ils n'ont.)

To get out of a dream, just one eye. (Pour sortir d'un rêve, - Suffit d'un seul œil.)

Vampire doesn't see his image. Even less in the holy water. (Vampire ne voit son image. - Encore moins dans l'eau bénite.)

All is gas and gaiters.

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.