Sentence examples for deceiving yourself from inspiring English sources

Parents, you are deceiving yourself.

There seems to be something strange in the very idea of deceiving yourself.

You're awfully good at deceiving yourself!" Both the memoir and Westin's biography yield obvious ties between Jansson's life and work.

Quit deceiving yourself.

Truly get to know someone — in person — before deceiving yourself into believing what you have is real.

Stop deceiving yourself.

Would you like to know the rules of engagement?" During Neptune's transit it's easy to deceive yourself or be deceived by others.

Don't deceive yourself.

Do not deceive yourself.

"The worst thing you can do is deceive yourself," he said.

After discussing his many duplicitous characters — such as Briony Tallis, the precocious adolescent of his 2001 novel, "Atonement," who ruins two lives when she makes a false accusation of rape — McEwan pointed to a "study in cognitive psychology" suggesting that "the best way to deceive someone is first to deceive yourself," because you're more convincing when you're sincere.