Quotes About Illusion

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead, as it's your birthday Delusion, today, is just fine

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.