Deceive Quotes

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Cannot, Able

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

Nature, God, Men

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Pleasure, Double, Deceiver

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

Love, Ourselves, Advantage

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott

Web, Weave, Tangled

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes

Trust, Time, Once

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friends, Deceived

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire

Between, Silent, Speaking

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

Liar, Same, Books

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Lie, Words, Desire

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Themselves, Grown

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ourselves, Deceived

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Hesiod

Woman, After, She

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Sissela Bok

Liars, Desire, Deceived

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time, Others, Used

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust

Love, Woman, Another

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Charles Stanley

God, Best, Language

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature, Ourselves, Deceives

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Trust, Times, Somebody

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William Hazlitt

Truth, Few, Ourselves

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

Bad, Acting, Worse

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing

Human, Believing, Deserve

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer

Themselves, Propaganda, Merely

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell

Integrity, May, Subtlety

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts

Government, Cannot, Used

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
Bryant H. McGill

Truth, Often, Favorite

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma

Yourself, Mind, Long

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson

Knowledge, Wisdom, Eyes

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft

God, Possible, Himself

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade

Women, Experience, Pain

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