Anthony Trollope Quotes

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

In my lifetime I have never seen such a volume of deceiving and dissembling.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

I don't lie," I lied.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.