Esteem Quote by William Hazlitt

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

— Blaise Pascal

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

— Lord Byron

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with…

— Demosthenes

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

— Isaac Watts

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others;…

— Elspeth Huxley

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

— Philip Sidney

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to…

— Joseph Butler

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

— Mardy Grothe

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

— Kevin Young

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

— Sidney Jourard