Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The…

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

— Desiree Rogers

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

— Zosia Mamet

I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.

— Yasmin Le Bon

I cannot express how unglamorous it is. There are moments, where you're at an event, and you'll be like, oh, this is quite shiny,…

— Emma Corrin

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

— Jodie Whittaker

“But even in the unglamorous warp of the peephole, she looked like a million sunny days to me.”

— Devon Monk

Progress can be unglamorous.

— Jardine Libaire

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet…

— Ray Metzker

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.…

— Cindy Gerard

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

— Marcel Proust

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

— Van Morrison

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell