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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)
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception. (Quote by - Bernard Katz)
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)