Illusion Quotes

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

Voltaire

It is our illusions that create the world

Didier Cauwelaert

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world

Arnold Newman

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

Cyril Connolly

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground

Christopher Martin-Wieland

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back

Carl Sagan

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up. More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong.

Ang Lee

If it was a truly independent board, I'd be happier about it. As it is now, it creates the illusion that both parties in the state are of equal strength and that's not the case.

Paul Berendt

If you've chosen egocentricity for your career path than you've chosen to live with the illusion that your surroundings will serve you continuously.

Martin Dansky

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sydney Smith
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