Inner Dishonesty Quotes

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.