Great Deceiver Quotes

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

Daniel Alarcon

#2. 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

#3. The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

Soseki Natsume

#4. Every great writer is a great deceiver

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Vincent Voiture

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

Tobsha Learner

#7. It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews. (The Inn at Lake Devine)

Elinor Lipman

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

Andrew Davidson

#9. Because you're such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they're going to use you as a salesman. If you're going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

Randy Pausch

#10. I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Elizabeth Warren

#11. Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

Brent Weeks

#12. I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Milton Bradley

#13. Hope, the great deceiver, seduced her that morning.

Rabih Alameddine