Top 47 Deceiver Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.
Tobsha Learner
#7. Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived.
Steven Pinker
#9. 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
#10. Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
Andrew Davidson
#11. 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
#12. Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.
Daniel Alarcon
#13. Religion, which true policy befriends,
Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
Made the chief party in its own decay,
And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.
Katherine Philips
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.
David Jeremiah
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
Brent Weeks
#22. Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Welcome, thou kind deceiver!
Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,
Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,
Even steal us from ourselves.
John Dryden
#24. The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...
Bipan Chandra
#25. 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
#26. A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
A.E. Housman
#31. 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
#33. Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
Leo Tolstoy
#34. Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles
#35. 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
#37. sura 3.28 of the Koran that, "We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them." And, of course, there was sura 3.54, which declared that the best deceiver of all was Allah himself.
William R. Forstchen
#39. Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make.
And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption.
Dean Koontz
#40. What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?
Euripides
#41. Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture
#42. My emotions split into an unsolvable jigsaw puzzle. I was smooth edges, crooked edges, and awkward corner edges.
I was cutthroat and fierce, betrayer and deceiver, loved and lover.
Pepper Winters
#43. He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.
Peter Benchley
#44. Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
George Colman
#45. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.
Anthony Liccione
#46. Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world
Munia Khan
#47. Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
Kay Boyle
