Quotes About Illusion

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

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

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

As a lover, I'm about as impressive as a magician on the radio.

I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

You say you want a Prince, yet you look in the swap amongst the frogs.

When the candles are out all women are fair

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Framed to make women false.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.