Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

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

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

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.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

I noticed again, too, that he can tell a lie with as straight a face as any man. Probably some of the lies are not lies to him because he believes fanatically the words he is saying.

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

Many, many people exaggerate their accomplishments, blame their failures on others, and misrepresent reality in order to make themselves look better. This behavior is ubiquitous—sometimes intentional, more often subconscious. In ordinary life, we tolerate it, mutely or not, hoping that we are not as bad as the person whose lies we are listening to.

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.