quotes 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 -
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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 LavoisierSource : 1789 Traiteele mentaire de la chimie ('Elements of Chemistr y', translated by Robert Kerr).
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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 -
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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 -
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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 AffleckSource : "Roger Ebert still has questions for Casey Affleck". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.
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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 TwittySource : Song: Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
-- Hesiod -
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My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.
-- Howard Thurston -
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
-- Ignatius of Antioch -
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
-- J. C. Ryle -
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
-- Jane Austen -
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Reason deceives us; conscience, never.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
-- Jeremiah -
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.
-- John Edward -
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
-- John Ruskin -
The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.
-- John Vance Cheney -
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There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
-- Joseph Addison -
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.
-- Julio Cortazar -
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
-- Juvenal -
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Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
-- Kerry King -
Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
-- Laura Riding -
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.
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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
-- Mahmoud DarwishSource : Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago
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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.
-- Margaret MacMillan -
Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.
-- Marjorie Bowen -
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Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.
-- Mehmet Oz -
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
-- Norm MacDonald -
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
-- Otto von Bismarck -
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
-- Ovid -
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
-- Patrick MarberSource : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.78, Grove Press
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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
-- Philip Neri -
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
-- Pierre Bayle -
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
-- Pierre Bayle -
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
-- Plato -
He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.
-- Rafael Trujillo -
If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.
-- Rumi -
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We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
-- Sissela BokSource : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.7, Vintage
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I detest those who deceive me...
-- Steve BerrySource : Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.72, Ballantine Books
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Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
-- Steve Spurrier -
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
-- Ted Dexter -
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
-- Tim Cook -
I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.
-- Eugene Talmadge -
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
-- Kate Burridge -
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When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.
-- Mardy Grothe -
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.
-- Theognis of Megara -
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.
-- Zicheng Hong -
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Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.
-- Christian Boltanski -
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.
-- Edward Bouverie PuseySource : Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883). “Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.”
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Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
-- George Zimmerman -
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Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
-- James Robertson -
I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.
-- Eugene Talmadge