Comfort Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

— Charles Grandison Finney

Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

— Xenocrates

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

— Leo Tolstoy

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

— Demosthenes

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

— Anatole France

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

— Tim Cook

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to…

— Carlos Fuentes

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes