Quotes About Deceivers

#1. While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.

Barbara Tuchman

#2. None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives.
Are self deceivers, but the worst of all
Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy'
And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

Louis MacNeice

#3. Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

Honore De Balzac

#4. Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

George Ayittey

#5. Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

Robert Greene

#6. Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.

Zicheng Hong

#7. People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Iris Murdoch

#8. Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Luc De Clapiers

#9. We are all deceivers to some degree. The difference between safe and unsafe "liars" is that safe people own their lies and see them as a problem to change as they become aware of their deception.

Henry Cloud

#10. Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Hesiod

#11. The best deceivers are those who know the truth, but denies it.

Michael Barber

#12. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

#13. deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

Hetty King

#15. But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

Rajneesh

#16. We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes ...

Glen Hansard

#17. If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

R.C. Sproul

#18. Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible - time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

Richard Ford

#20. Lord Hamlet, It seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trust only his sight and is a slave to his base desire!

Lisa M. Klein

#21. All deceivers and liars without exception will burn in hell fire

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

George Crabbe

#24. Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

Luc De Clapiers

#25. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Charles Bukowski

#26. ..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Michael Frayn

#27. Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world

Munia Khan

#28. The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

Marston Bates

#29. Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Kay Boyle

#30. In plain language, we cannot live except as self-deceivers who must lie to ourselves about ourselves, as well as about our unwinnable situation in this world.

Thomas Ligotti

#31. Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check
agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

Luther Burbank

#32. Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

Isocrates

#33. There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#34. The real deceivers are the literalists, who say, I cannot tell a lie.

Norman O. Brown