Audrey Meadows Quotes

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.