There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
Meir Kahane

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.
Jane Asher

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.
Kevin Conroy

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Woody Allen

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

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.
Margaret Cho

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
Paul Schrader

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H. Lapham

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

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.
Isaac Yeffet

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch

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

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles