Deception Quotes
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. (Quote by - Homer)
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. (Quote by - François de La Rochefoucauld)
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. (Quote by - Xun Zi)
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled. (Quote by - John Wanamaker)
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. (Quote by - Donna A. Favors)
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy." (Quote by - Mary Howitt)
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. (Quote by - Sophocles)
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Life is the art of being well deceived. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. (Quote by - George Herbert)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. (Quote by - Michael Musto)
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. (Quote by - Plato)
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. (Quote by - Knute Rockne)
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar. (Quote by - Stanislaw Lee)
You k'n hide de fier, but what you guine do wid de smoke? (Quote by - Joel Chandler Harris)
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. (Quote by - John Milton)
All warfare is based on deception. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. (Quote by - Marina Tsvetaeva)
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them. (Quote by - Dwight Schultz)
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. (Quote by - Charles Van Doren)
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Oh what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to deceive! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
One is easily fooled by that which one loves. (Quote by - Moliere)
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. (Quote by - Edward V. Lucas)
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. (Quote by - Virgil Thomson)
Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. (Quote by - E. R. Beadle)
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. (Quote by - Arthur Schlesinger)
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. (Quote by - Hitoadesa)
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. (Quote by - Horace)
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? (Quote by - Claude Debussy)
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work. (Quote by - Lauryn Hill)
A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. (Quote by - Lord Denman)
Politicians are masters of the art of deception. (Quote by - Martin L. Gross)
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. (Quote by - Claude Debussy)
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. (Quote by - Al Goldstein)
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home. (Quote by - Major R. Owens)
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Clouds that thunder do not always rain. (Quote by - Armenian Proverb)
One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there, it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison. (Quote by - Panchatantra)
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. (Quote by - Plato)
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. (Quote by - Raul Grijalva)
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't. (Quote by - Kim Novak)
Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception. (Quote by - Lemuel B. Haynes)
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. (Quote by - Kenneth Koch)
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. (Quote by - Adelbert von Chamisso)
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
Men still have to be governed by deception. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
All war is based on deception. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
