Top 100 Deceive Quotes
#1. She lied not from a desire to deceive but in order to correct reality and mitigate the absurdity that struck her world and mine.
Kamel Daoud
#2. A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc De Clapiers
#3. While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.
Ann Aguirre
#4. That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
Glen Duncan
#5. We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Vance Havner
#6. The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Dennis Prager
#7. Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.
Marjorie Bowen
#8. Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
Laurence Sterne
#9. I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope ... perhaps I wanted to ... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.
George R R Martin
#10. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.
Eugene V. Debs
#11. Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive
Madeleine Albright
#12. While illusion distorts reality for a moment, error can reign for a millennia in abstractions, throw its iron yoke over whole peoples and stifle the noblest impulses of humanity; those it cannot deceive are left in chains by those it has, by its slaves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#13. We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Vernon Howard
#14. Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
Anthony Of Padua
#15. When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.
Eileen Wilks
#16. Predestination ... and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only ... for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23
Steven J. Lawson
#17. Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Guy De Maupassant
#18. To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.
I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind
Thomas Hardy
#19. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.
Rajneesh
#21. 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
#22. ...progress of civilization has brought along with it much beclouding of realities and grave danger. Apparent economies may easily deceive us. But technical progress should never be the goal, only the means.
Tenny Pinheiro
#23. Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
Rajneesh
#24. I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive another and through these variations the world is made more beautiful.
Francesco Vettori
#25. You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. Nature never deceives us;
it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Scott Lynch
#27. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY has told us that "Not to undeceive, is to deceive";
John Denham Parsons
#28. Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
#29. Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
Barton Gellman
#30. A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love.
Marcel Proust
#31. I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
Agatha Christie
#32. In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle.
#33. Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett
#34. Don't let bad thoughts deceive you into thinking that you have to feel bad. Be aware and conscious of it and choose to think good thoughts whenever you are bombarded with the bad.
Remember to live your life passionately!
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#35. O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.
Joaquin Miller
#36. Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you; revelation does not. Eyes evaluate; revelation is certain. God gives everyone eyes; revelation is reserved for those who pursue him for it.
Ron Brackin
#37. Anyone can deceive us .... for a time.
[KGB]
Tom Clancy
#38. 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
#39. O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#40. A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
George Bernard Shaw
#41. Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
Dante Alighieri
#42. Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
#43. As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley
#45. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later:
Bram Stoker
#46. Duty is a concept created by emperors and generals to deceive us into performing their will. Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others.
Tan Twan Eng
#47. I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
Scott McClellan
#48. To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
Plato
#49. 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
#50. Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#51. 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
#52. The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
Honore De Balzac
#54. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.
Paul Washer
#55. Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
Laura Riding
#56. But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
Eileen Wilks
#57. If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.
Bashar Al-Assad
#58. Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
Kate Burridge
#59. Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
Rene Descartes
#60. Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive. They can create happiness or inflict enormous pain. You have to know how to get them to talk.
Lee Goldberg
#61. There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
Edward Humes
#62. Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#63. Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
Bianca Jagger
#65. 22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.m
Anonymous
#66. Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
Ovid
#67. Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Carl Jung
#68. Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#69. He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more
William Swan Plumer
#70. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
Anonymous
#71. Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
Michael Leunig
#72. This hotel-the Amazon- was for women only, and they were mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and deceive them.
Sylvia Plath
#73. What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient!
John Milton
#74. Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
Seneca The Younger
#75. Satan intends to deceive us by getting us to take our eyes off of who we are in Christ and focus on our flaws - and then spend our days figuring out how we can hide them.
Renee Swope
#76. To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others. These harsh words pierced me to the core.
Shinichi Suzuki
#77. Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
Bryant McGill
#78. The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.
Ezra Taft Benson
#79. In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
Marcel Proust
#80. If it's a slip or even a fall in your deen (religion), don't let shaytan (satan) deceive you. Let the slip make you witness His mercy in a more experiential and deep way. And then seek that mercy to save you from your sins and your own transgression against yourself.
Yasmin Mogahed
#81. I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew
#82. I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the
Robyn Schneider
#83. This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.
George Papandreou
#84. It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Joseph Glanvill
#85. Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
Criss Jami
#87. my whole life is nothing else than a daily effort to deceive myself and other people, and to avoid noticing it;
Anton Chekhov
#88. All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term,
Wayne LaPierre
#89. This speedy retreat left Georges-Picot under the impression that 'What the British want, is only to deceive the Arabs.
James Barr
#90. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.
Orest Stocco
#91. All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave?
~ Ayden
Rachel Haimowitz
#92. Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
Isabel Allende
#93. 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
#94. It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
John Irving
#95. His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Bruno Bauer
#96. He believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves and no end to their capacity to deceive themselves and that though they loved life, they probably loved death more and in the end thanatos would likely win over eros.
Walker Percy
#97. Success makes me happy, but it doesn't give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.
M.F. Moonzajer
#98. It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.
George R R Martin
#99. He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.
Rafael Trujillo
#100. 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
