Quotes and Sayings About Deceiving
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
-- Agatha Christie -
We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
-- Allen Steck -
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive
-- Bo -
That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.
-- Brother Lawrence -
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
-- Bruno Bauer -
Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?
-- Calvin Trillin -
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
-- Carl Jung -
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
-- Casey Affleck -
Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.
-- Cesare Borgia -
If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
-- Confucius -
I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.
-- Conway Twitty -
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
-- Eileen Wilks -
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
-- Eric Hoffer -
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
-- George Horace Lorimer -
You’ve no more for me than I have for you.†Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!†“You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!
-- Georgette Heyer -
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
-- Guru Nanak
