Inner Deceit Quotes

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

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

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.