Top 100 Quotes About Deceiving
#1. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
Jean De La Bruyere
#2. Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
Kofi Abrefa Busia
#4. Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
Anthony Trollope
#5. If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
Theodor Herzl
#6. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.
Alex Webb
#8. Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
Blaise Pascal
#9. I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.
Jack Gantos
#10. Looks can be deceiving. You can't always tell what's going on inside a person from outside. People put on a brave face when they're trying to get over heartbreak, but that doesn't mean they have.
Alison G. Bailey
#11. By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.
Gurcharan Das
#12. The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Adrienne Rich
#13. The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.
Cambria Hebert
#14. You want to watch him, Julia," he told me. "He may look harmless enough, but appearances can be deceiving." Geoff grinned. "That's slander, that is. You know I always behave like a perfect gentleman." "Right then, Sir Galahad," Iain said dryly.
Susanna Kearsley
#15. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.
Ronaldinho
#16. If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway - is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?
Patricia Briggs
#17. Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving.
Julie Anne Long
#18. Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Lothrop Motley
#20. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
LeBron James
#21. Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
C. G. Jung
#23. The streetlights had already lit up on Bronnaya, and a golden moon hung over the Patriarchs. In the ever deceiving lunar light, it appeared to Ivan Nikolayevich that, instead of a cane, the professor stood holding a sword under his arm.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#24. Our brains are not actually duplex apartments occupied by feuding neighbors, and how we bring about the complicated act of deceiving ourselves remains a mystery.
Kathryn Schulz
#25. She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.
Margaret Atwood
#26. They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
Antonio Porchia
#27. The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.
N.K. Jemisin
#28. Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
Blaise Pascal
#30. Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#31. I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
Patrick Marber
#32. It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Blaise Pascal
#34. However, become doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning.
Anonymous
#35. I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Camillo Di Cavour
#36. By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.
Dalai Lama
#37. Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't see anything wrong with that picture. Jacob was a gift from the gods.
Stephenie Meyer
#38. To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
Elspeth Huxley
#39. From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.
Belle Malory
#40. Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
Wes Fesler
#41. Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
Carl Jung
#42. There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
Joseph Addison
#43. I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.
Michael Finkel
#44. Some people in your life
Touch you so very deeply
That you drown totally in that depth.
Amit Abraham
#45. If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.
Rumi
#46. Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.
David Sedaris
#47. How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don't mean, and do that which you planned against?
Kyle Schmalenberg
#48. It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
John Locke
#49. Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.
Richard Dawkins
#50. Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly.
Julie McElwain
#51. DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a cathedral where, amid the serenity, something is false, the saints are made of florist's wax, the organ has been gutted.
James Salter
#52. Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
Kerry King
#53. Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
Fanny Kemble
#54. How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.
Hisham Matar
#55. Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
Ronaldo
#56. Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
Jeremiah
#57. Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Guru Nanak
#58. Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.
Julio Cortazar
#60. repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.
Ken Sande
#61. Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.
Dean Koontz
#62. Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient
Marcel Proust
#63. A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#64. I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
Jesse Eisenberg
#65. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
Oscar Wilde
#66. She found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last deceiving philter of the desperate.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#67. When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
Blaise Pascal
#68. Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#69. The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.
John Vance Cheney
#70. The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
John Owen
#71. Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
Juvenal
#72. Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
Buchi Emecheta
#73. If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.
Mike Miller
#74. Stoneville seems like a decent enough chap."
She stifled a hysterical laugh. "Oh, yes, quite decent. We met him in a brothel, and he's blackmailing us into deceiving his grandmother.
Sabrina Jeffries
#75. Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.
M.H. Rakib
#76. Women have been deceiving men since the Garden of Eden. They've had centuries of practice.
Michael Schmicker
#77. Misleading and deceiving people are addicted
to a despair of longing to Death & Weakness.
That's all.
Petra Hermans
#78. Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
Emil Cioran
#79. I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.
Catherine Sanderson
#80. There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
Ellin Devis
#81. TARKIN: The wench hath lied! Deceiving,
cut-throat girl,
Most cunning princess born of
Hell's own heart!
Ian Doescher
#82. Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
John D. Rockefeller
#83. We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
Dalai Lama
#84. We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?
Leo Tolstoy
#85. Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
#86. In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#87. When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.
Mardy Grothe
#88. For love deceives the best of woman kind.
Homer
#89. I've developed a reputation as cold, unfeeling monster who fears nothing and cares for less. But this is all very deceiving. Because the truth is, I am nothing but a coward.
Tahereh Mafi
#90. My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.
Howard Thurston
#91. The site looks unpromising from a distance, blending in with the surrounding sepia-toned hills, but I'm learning that looks can be deceiving.
Lynn Austin
#92. Appearances may be deceiving.
Aesop
#93. Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
Thomas Hobbes
#94. Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Aaron Hill
#95. I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
Julie Burchill
#96. Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought- so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
Dalai Lama
#97. Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. My religion is not deceiving myself.
Milarepa
#99. lie consists in speaking something we know is false with the intention of deceiving. This is the most direct offense against
Charles Pope
#100. Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.
Christian Boltanski
