Rose Macaulay Quotes

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

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

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

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

If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.

Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.

I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.

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

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

You can't lie to your soul.