Fanny Brice Quotes

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Disillusion is the last illusion.