"Delusive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sad tribulation at finding his expectations delusive, endeavoured for some time, it is said, to dispose of his necklace among the ...
— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan
... bowels of the earth, and every shovelful he took out had to be passed up from step to step, so that four or five other men had been employed before it reached the top. Damp patches were sometimes found quite early but the hopes they raised were usually delusive and water was only struck at a considerable depth, and then not in any abundance. Fortunately wells sunk in other parts of the wadi proved more successful, but it was a little trying to read in Mr. ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison
... that our heads had crowned with laurels green, By priestly staff whose verdure had decayed, Robbed me of Hope's sweet solaces, and e'en The last delusive comfort caused to fade; Yet thus was nourished in my soul serene An inward trust, by which my faith was stayed; And if to this trust I prove ever true The withered staff shall ...
— Life of Wagner - Biographies of Musicians • Louis Nohl
... and, indeed, these remarks are pushed purposely too far in order to draw attention to the fact that the actors are prone to consider their own "reading" of a part without reference to the audience, and even, in some cases, to the author. In other words, they are misled by the delusive term "create," so often applied to acting as well as to millinery. The word is inappropriate to the rapidly evanescent. "Original interpreters" is the highest phrase ...
— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
... yet this strange and sudden flight, From gloomy cares to gay delight, This fickleness so light and vain, In life's delusive transient dream, Where men nor things are what they seem, Is all ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
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