#disillusion

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#disillusionment #faith

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#business #disillusioned #grew #help #i

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#business #commonplaces #constant #disillusion #life

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

#disillusionment #having #illusion #moment #moments

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#disillusioned #house #i #knowingly #later

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#hope #life #life-lessons #love #strength

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#falsehood #fury #pain #love

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes. ↗

— Francis Maude

#compete #disillusioned #effectively #enough #gain