Quotes About Illusion

Cuando uno está enamorado, siempre comienza engañándose a sí mismo y termina engañando a otros. Eso es lo que el mundo llama amor

One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.

Llevamos cadenas, aunque nadie las vea, y somos esclavos, aunque los hombres nos llamen libres

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Detrás de toda hermosura hay algo trágico

There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

Ah! then it must be an illusion. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

Art and art only, can make archaeology beautiful; and the theatric art can use it most directly and most vividly, for it can combine in one exquisite presentation the illusion of actual life with the wonder of the unreal world.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

Leave us some unreality. Do not make us too offensively sane.

But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

I said in Dorian Gray that the great sins of the world take place in the brain: but it is in the brain that everything takes place. We know now that we do not see with the eyes or hear with the ears. They are really channels for the transmission, adequate or inadequate, of sense impressions. It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

A we wszystkich romansach najgorsze jest to, ?e cz?owiek wychodzi z nich pozbawiony wszelkiego romantyzmu.

I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

Kiedy si? zakochamy, zawsze najpierw oszukujemy siebie, a na koniec nieodmiennie zwodzimy innych. To w?a?nie ?wiat nazywa romansem.