A Deceiver Quotes

#1. Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Sophocles

#2. Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Leo Tolstoy

#3. God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Saint Augustine

#4. Old age can be a deceiver. My knees ache when I walk, but if I sit still, I do not feel so different from the girl I was.

Phyllis T. Smith

#5. The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life,

Ted Haggard

#6. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

Marguerite De Navarre

#7. Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Orson Scott Card

#8. Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

Euripides

#10. Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.

Boris Pasternak

#12. Mass was like grand opera, a magic show with the most expensive props in town. And faith, a sleight of hand trick, in which one was both the magician and the audience; the deceiver and the deceived. Still, who could resist a good magic trick?

Kathleen Tessaro

#13. Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Criss Jami

#14. Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

Andrew Davidson

#15. It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Tobsha Learner

#17. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

#18. If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

Herbert Fingarette

#19. Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

George Colman

#20. He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

Peter Benchley

#21. Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Vincent Voiture

#22. Every great writer is a great deceiver

Vladimir Nabokov

#23. These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!

Pierre Corneille

#24. Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

A.E. Housman

#25. Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

Samuel Johnson

#26. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Shawna Lemay

#27. Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Elvis Costello

#28. A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

#29. I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight.

Ken Cruickshank

#30. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.

Anthony Liccione

#31. Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.

Daniel Alarcon