Quotes About Illusion

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.

Beauty is a mute deception.

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.