Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

Robert Carlyle

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Rob Bell

No one has the last word other than God.

Robert Shaw

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Sarah Monette

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

Wallace Stevens

Disillusion is the last illusion.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Samuel Richardson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

Rod Serling

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Voltaire

All is but illusion and disaster.

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Yann Martel

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Morrie Schwartz

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

H. G. Wells

There's truths you have to grow into.