Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

My dreams are all follies.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

I was trying to sell a dream ... There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.