Quotes about Illusion
We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside
— Richard Paul Evans
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
— Victor Hugo
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
— Timothy Keller
People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
— Anonymous
Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
— Anonymous
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
— Anonymous
I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can't even see a difference.
— Anonymous
Victory is a political fiction.
— Anonymous
A beautiful face can mask great evil...
— Francine Rivers
A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
— Francine Rivers
Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
— Francine Rivers