Quotes About Illusion

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

so full of shapes is fancy

Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

He will fence with his own shadow.

Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but 'tis not she: Truth and beauty buriéd be.

Who makes the fairest show means the most deceit.

There is magic in the web Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.

Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET At supper. KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where? HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Sycorax has grown into a hoop

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.

Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, The other way he's a Mars.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream

Thou talk'st of nothing. True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasty; Which is as thin of substance as the air; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face t the dew-dropping south.

O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!

When in that moment,—so it came to pass,— Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.

Look here upon this picture, and on this...

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

But I have that within which passes show. these but the trappings and the suits of woe