Quotes About Deceiving Others

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

Oscar Wilde

#4. 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

#5. We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. He who takes delight in deceiving others must not complain when he is deceived himself.

David Miller

#7. We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Horace

#10. Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

#11. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Samuel Johnson

#13. We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

#14. Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

George Zimmerman

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Tim Cook

#23. Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

#24. Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Confucius

#25. When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

Mardy Grothe

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

LeBron James

#29. 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

#30. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean De La Bruyere