The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
Guy Verhofstadt

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
Alva Myrdal

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Ramman Kenoun

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
Julian Barbour

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Michael Flanders

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
Lafcadio Hearn

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
Craig Bruce

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson