Top 100 Quotes About Deceiving
#1. 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
#2. She had lost interest in her marriage. There was nothing else to say. It was a prison.
'No, I'll tell you what it is , I'm indifferent to it . I am bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false.They're deceiving themselves.
James Salter
#3. You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.
Gary Cole
#4. Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance.
Thomas S. Monson
#5. When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something ... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
Joan Didion
#6. He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.
Craig Biggio
#8. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
Osamu Dazai
#9. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.
John Milton
#10. There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.
Leo Tolstoy
#11. Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#12. In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.
Oscar Wilde
#13. Am I capable of deceiving my friend? Julien asked himself peevishly. This being, for whom hypocrisy and an absence of all sympathy were the usual methods of protecting himself, could not bear, this time, the thought of the slightest trickiness in dealing with a man for whom he had friendly feelings.
Stendhal
#14. We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].
Dada Bhagwan
#15. Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Francis Cornford
#16. The devil sweeps people away by deceiving them, showing them a happy life only in the movies
Sunday Adelaja
#17. My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in silence. The snow covered everthing and I walked above cotton, on silent carpets, on beach sand. Softness is temporary and deceiving. It gently receives you and gently expels you.
Rawi Hage
#18. I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.
Ernest Cline
#19. Deception is parcel to ruling. I tell my enemies, my allies, and my subjects what they need to know, when I feel they need to know it. This philosophy tends to have some effects. A man cannot take it as his business to repeatedly deceive the world, without somehow deceiving himself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#20. Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don't attempt to justify myself. It's not my husband but myself I have deceived. And not only just now; I have been deceiving myself for a long time.
Anton Chekhov
#21. Our backs hut from gathering them: how hard they were to find among the concealing leaves, the frosted deceiving grass.
Truman Capote
#22. Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.
Laura Halldorson
#23. Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#24. Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
Fiona Apple
#25. When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - Oscar Wilde
Ashton Cartwright
#26. The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture ... taking a verse out of context ... deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited - these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.
Billy Graham
#27. Appearances often are deceiving.
Aesop
#28. Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
John Ortberg
#29. The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
John Calvin
#30. Guys like him? They were the worst kind. All looks and no heart. Guys not like him? They were all deceiving, freaking asshats.
Rucy Ban
#31. One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.
Bertrand Russell
#34. You didn't strike me as stupid, but I guess first impressions are deceiving.
Talia Vance
#35. Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
Vladimir Putin
#36. A person can say he loves God with all his heart and can give a great impression of this being the case, but if he does not relate well with others, he is deceived and/or deceiving (1 John 4:20).
Lewie Clark
#37. Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black
#39. Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.
Angelica Hopes
#40. Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
Julianna Baggott
#41. An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
John Galt
#42. I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.
Steve Grand
#43. There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at times. He doesn't charge on the scene clothed in red and wearing a hideous mask but charms his way as an "angel of light." This is how Satan operates.
Billy Graham
#44. Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#45. There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.
E. M. Forster
#46. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art ... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
Joshua Reynolds
#47. Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.
Frederick Lenz
#48. It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.
George W. Bush
#49. Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?
In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.
Love. Love was what drove him.
David Bowles
#50. Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.
Elizabeth Holmes
#52. Love of Truth is one of the strongest motives for replacing what really happens by a streamlined account or, to express it in a less polite manner
love of truth is one of the strongest motives for deceiving oneself and others.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#53. The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler
#54. happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it.
Luis E. Navia
#55. Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
Steve Spurrier
#56. We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
Vladimir Lenin
#57. Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
#58. Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.
Mohammed Ali Bapir
#59. 1Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, + 2speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
Anonymous
#60. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Bertrand Russell
#61. I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
#63. He knows about sacrificing himself for the good of the whole.That's what soldiers do.It's not the torture he can't forgive me for. Nor deceiving him about his people. It's because I put you in harm's way he is so angry" Then she said, very calmly, "If I could kill you, I would" - Mrsilia
Patricia Briggs
#64. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#65. It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
George Henry Lewes
#66. Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to be a new person, another person. To hate life worse than it hated me. To sin so as not to die.
Henri Barbusse
#67. In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#68. We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.
Mark Gottfried
#69. Do I look feeble to you"
"Actually, yes."
"Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you look reasonably intelligent.
Neal Shusterman
#70. There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
#71. The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving people for years, he reminded himself. It's what you do.
Dan Brown
#72. Experience itself, to our own great loss and bane, affords us sad proof that Satan seizes as many opportunities of deceiving and destroying mankind as there are different moods and affections natural to the human character. Demonolatry, Nicholas Remy
Phillip W. Simpson
#73. She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.
Emily Arden
#74. Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
David Korten
#75. Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Algernon Sidney
#76. 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
#77. A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm.
Eulalia Marques
#78. The computer-simulated dreamworld of the Matrix trilogy is a technological version of Descartes's evil demon. In essence it represents the idea of a mind (the Architect) more powerful than our own that is intent on deceiving us whenever, and however, it sees fit.
William Irwin
#79. Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing
Jessie J.
#80. Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he's ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he's deceiving?
Richard Adams
#81. 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
#82. I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.
Julie Burchill
#83. He who takes delight in deceiving others must not complain when he is deceived himself.
David Miller
#84. loved lawyers; never before had there been such a scrupulous, underhanded, deceiving creature as the lawyer. And
Andrew Buckley
#85. ...seeing is believing, but remember looks can be deceiving...
J.A. Smith
#86. Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.
James Thurber
#87. James 1:22 is the theme verse of the entire book of James. It says, But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
David Platt
#89. I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson
#90. Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.
Ed Stetzer
#91. When will you understand that your childish beliefs mean an absolute nothing in this wild universe! When will you be serious? When will you give up deceiving yourself? When will you stop believing in the tales of old times as if they are true?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.
Dean Koontz
#93. It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#94. Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.
Donald R. Hickey
#95. She could be anybody and she could pretend to be whomever she wants to be. With social media and internet communications, everything is virtual. Social media is full of fake and sick people deceiving each other and fantasizing to be something they are not.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
