Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare
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  1. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. - Unknown

  2. There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. - T.S. Eliot

  3. Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. - Edward Albee

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

  5. The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure. - Ruth Tessler Goldstein

More Quotes By William Shakespeare
  1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  2. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  3. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

  4. The course of true love never did run smooth.

  5. O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call...

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