Top 64 Those Who Deceive Quotes
#1. Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
Matthew Henry
#2. Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
Bryant McGill
#3. 350. - Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#7. We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine Lavoisier
#8. Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.
John Shimkus
#9. None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
Benjamin Whichcote
#10. There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he's doing. Don't deceive yourself, you don't care about how he's doing, you're just craving him, don't do it. You'll only hurt yourself.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#11. I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette Winterson
#12. Men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and so willing to deceive themselves, that they are rescued with difficulty from this pest. If they wish to defend themselves they run the risk of becoming contemptible.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#13. One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.
John Edward Williams
#14. Even good people are obliged to deceive.
Greg LeMond
#15. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Benjamin Franklin
#16. If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
Dalai Lama
#17. One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
Vernon Howard
#18. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other.
~Empress Irene~
Kris Waldherr
#19. There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.
Herman Melville
#20. And therefore ought each of us to give heed concerning trials and temptations, and watch unto prayer, lest the devil find occasion to deceive; for he never sleepeth, but goeth about seeking whom he may devour.
Thomas A Kempis
#21. All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
Dada Bhagwan
#22. I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.
Alicia Silverstone
#23. I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.
Sharon Olds
#24. Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
William Hazlitt
#26. Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
Veronica Roth
#27. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Francis De Sales
#28. The Antichrist ... will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.
Billy Graham
#29. Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#30. Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
Tim Cook
#31. Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#32. Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you; revelation does not. Eyes evaluate; revelation is certain. God gives everyone eyes; revelation is reserved for those who pursue him for it.
Ron Brackin
#33. Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
#34. Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
Samuel Johnson
#35. Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived.
Dianna Hardy
#36. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#37. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.
Mary Schapiro
#38. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#39. Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
R.D. Laing
#40. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
Jean De La Bruyere
#41. You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.
Alexander McCall Smith
#43. We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all!
Leo Tolstoy
#45. A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
Jean De La Bruyere
#46. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.
Thomas Hoby
#47. The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
Thomas Adams
#48. Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr
#49. The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Charles Stanley
#50. People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it? Whether it is the lack of public interest, or whether it is we are so honest we don't want to deceive one another.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#51. The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
Ivan Panin
#52. There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire
#53. Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?
Murray Walker
#55. I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight.
Ken Cruickshank
#56. We cannot separate doubt from deception. Doubt robs a man of his confidence; it is a fearful thing. Offer him deception to restore that confidence and he will embrace the falsehood for the comfort it brings. If you would deceive, begin with doubt.
D.A. Blankinship
#57. The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. 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
#60. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
George Eliot
#61. It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.
Tim Parks
#62. Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.
Moshe Katsav
#63. I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.
Camille Claudel
#64. Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Emily Gould
