Top 100 Quotes About Deceptive: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Deceptive

#1. Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it.

Lev Grossman

#2. If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Terry Eagleton

#3. American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.

Sherrod Brown

#4. This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections?

Paul Washer

#5. I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

John Elkington

#6. So I have never believed that there was any genuine good in the things which everyone prays for; what is more, I have found them empty and daubed with showy and deceptive colours, with nothing inside to match their appearance.

Seneca.

#7. Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

Jonathan Raban

#8. Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Oliver Goldsmith

#9. Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#10. Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

Karen White

#11. On May 17, 1933, before the Reichstag, Hitler delivered his "Peace Speech," one of the greatest of his career, a masterpiece of deceptive propaganda that deeply moved the German people and unified them behind him and which made a profound and favorable impression on the outside world.

William L. Shirer

#12. Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

Robert H. Schuller

#13. Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Lu Xun

#14. I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Plato

#15. His wife, Leanne, who came to his waist, looked like an undernourished adolescent with the face of a fly, but her fragility was deceptive: she had given birth to six male children and was expecting the seventh. She knew it would be male because God was determined to test her patience.

Isabel Allende

#16. International awareness of his deceptive practices is the reflection of the frustration that is prevailing in Sri Lanka which the President is trying to undermine by the traditional emotive and hate mongering politics.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#17. Racial reasoning conceals these presuppositions behind a deceptive cloak of racial consensus - yet racial reasoning is seductive because it invokes an undeniable history of racial abuse and racial struggle.

Cornel West

#18. Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.

Jacqueline Winspear

#19. Shut up," Thoth and I said at the same time. He looked at me with surprise. "So, Sadie ... you are trying to stay in control. It won't last. You may be blood of the pharaohs, but Isis is a deceptive, power-hungry - " "I can contain her," I said,

Rick Riordan

#20. The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Neil LaBute

#22. What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.

Nick Harkaway

#23. Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Franz Kafka

#24. Vodka is a very deceptive drink. You can't taste it, you can't smell it.

Dylan Moran

#25. The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Said Nursi

#26. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.

Kate Atkinson

#27. Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#28. There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

Agnes Repplier

#29. Sometimes what is in front of you and what you are seeing isn't really so. It can, in fact, be quite deceptive.

Ella Frank

#30. Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

Laurel Lea

#31. Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

Mark Twain

#32. It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

Georges Bataille

#33. You often don't choose the attractive or the deceptive paths, but they choose you, they pull you to the path!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

Richard Whately

#35. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

James Randi

#38. I'd rather stick with reality. Dreams are deceptive.

Nora Roberts

#39. Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

Erin Pizzey

#40. But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good ... and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#41. Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper.

Joel Stein

#42. Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Honore De Balzac

#43. Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY.

Hester Browne

#44. More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.

Joanne Harris

#45. Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing.

Garey Gordon

#46. Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces ... where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

Witold Gombrowicz

#47. The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.

Donald Miller

#48. In the strictest sense, anxiety is not a problem at all, but a sign that we are in touch with our intuitive powers. In previous chapters we saw how the discipline of any judgmental or deceptive

Lewis M. Andrews

#49. An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Pierre Corneille

#50. It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

Ellen Goodman

#51. A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#52. The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Scott McClellan

#53. 30Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 31Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praises at the city gate.

Anonymous

#54. That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#55. Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Armand Hammer

#56. There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

Craig Stone

#57. Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Blaise Pascal

#58. Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Jodhi May

#59. He has carefully studied the benefits of various strategies of deception in order to "master" the world in order to achieve freedom and autonomy. He is convinced that a deceptive lifestyle would be appropriate in order for him to get even with those that he believes have let him suffer.

H.G. Tudor

#60. Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#61. Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive.

Wendy Wallace

#62. How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#63. There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Joyce Meyer

#64. When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

E. J. Dionne

#65. THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY DECEPTIVE ABOUT REALITY.

Alexandar Tomov

#66. He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.

Marcha A. Fox

#67. I will die, later or sooner, and what I understand will be lost, for when men and women seek truth, what they find is as deceptive as lies, and neither truth nor lies exist outside of a deceptive soul.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#68. He couldn't deny that she was lovely ... maybe even the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. But the most beautiful girl could still be deceptive and evil.

Morgan Rhodes

#69. Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again - words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!

Erich Maria Remarque

#70. We do battle with our minds and deceptive hearts, that we may might lay our souls down upon the grace of God.

Mike Donehey

#71. Sam and Elizabeth met as people usually meet. Suddenly, there was a deceptive light in the darkness. A light that reminded the lonely blackly of the darkness.

Joy Williams

#72. Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#73. The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind"; the idea of "a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circumstances [was] redolent with considerable danger." And

Jon Ronson

#74. Evil is cruel;
folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

Heraclitus

#76. Most of their leaders were evil and deceptive, and the majority of the populations followed like sheep being led to slaughter. I

Cameo Renae

#77. Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Lucinda Williams

#78. Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Ambrose Bierce

#79. Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

Frederick Lenz

#80. Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Michael Arndt

#81. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.

Richie Norton

#82. 'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Cathleen Schine

#83. Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence
words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security
there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

Howard Zinn

#84. As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Ngaio Marsh

#85. The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.

Bryant H. McGill

#86. Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

John O'Toole

#87. The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.

Colin Quinn

#88. It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

David Maraniss

#89. Houses are entirely different when you know them well, she thought, and on first acquaintance even more different from their real selves, more deceptive about their real character than human beings.

Nancy Mitford

#90. Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Tim Birkhead

#91. Jesus came into this world and died on the cross to blow apart all the deceptive mental pictures of God that we've been enslaved to since the original fall and that lie at the root of all idolatry and sin,

Gregory A. Boyd

#92. If evil gets us to buy into their deceptive lies, then truth never gets a chance to be anything but crazy.

L.M. Fields

#93. Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

Milarepa

#94. Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.

Phil Elverum

#95. We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

Marc Rotenberg