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)