As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

I don’t delude myself into thinking I’ll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

I certainly don’t delude myself that there aren’t certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can’t imagine anything that would bring me more joy.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we’ve been told to behave.

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people’s points of view – these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can’t allow them to delude us to the point where we can’t recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

I’m a very conservative businessman. I don’t work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.

I like to delude myself that I’m in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can’t do it.