It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved


William Somerset Maugham






















Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist


W. R. Inge

















The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion


Herman Melville



















The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion

Stanley Baldwin












We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs

Kenneth Clark












No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion


Henry Louis Mencken












He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind


John Maynard Keynes

















The shadow of victory is disillusion

Winston Churchill