"Self-deceived" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dragging on for God knows how long. It's the people who are paying. It's the people who ought to make the peace. The only thing that bothers me is whether we are doing it the right way. Is Freistner honest? Could he be self-deceived? Is there any chance that he could be playing into ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... and recognized him in the arena during the mornings of public festivals; that his outline, attitudes, movements and his manner of handling a sword, a club, a spear or a bow were unmistakable. I asseverate that these persons were and are self-deceived, or talking idly or repeating what they have heard from others or merely lying. Commodus never so far debased himself as to take his stand in the arena of the Colosseum on the morning of a public spectacle with all Rome ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... Fortune (see Introductory Notice to Sganarelle, or The Self-Deceived Husband), has borrowed from Molire's School for Husbands that part of his play in which Lady Dunse makes her husband the agent for conveying a ring and a letter ...
— The School for Husbands • Moliere
... acquainted, proposing marriage. The lady very properly declined. To be courted with a fresh-nibbed pen, and paper cut sonnet-size, instead of by a live man, deserves rebuke. Men who propose by mail to a woman in the next town are either insincere, self-deceived, or else are of the sort whose pulse never goes above sixty-five, and therefore ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... But I lay down, self-deceived, in that belief. And I awoke in it next day to find that there was still the same shade between me and ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens |
