Quote by Ellis Peters

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

— W. Somerset Maugham

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

— Joseph Conrad

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

— Elbert Hubbard

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

— Anonymous

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

— Jihae

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

— Anatole France

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to…

— Hugh Howey

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many…

— Italo Calvino

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

— Marcel Proust

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

— Arthur Helps