Top 100 To Deceive Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Every person has an incentive to deceive others for personal gain. But, until recently, no generation has practiced deception to the extent of our modern culture. Why?
Mike A. Robinson
#14. The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!
Steve Bivans
#15. Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Cesare Pavese
#16. When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs
Anonymous
#17. Many people are walking along the shore, turning poetic springtime faces towards the sea; they're having a holiday because of the sun. [ ... ] The true sea is cold and black, full of animals; it crawls under this thin green film made to deceive human beings.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#18. How the press, for example, loves to brag to its victims - its readers - about its freedom. Yes, the press may be free to lie and distort and suppress and deceive and malign, but is it free to tell the truth?
Willis Carto
#19. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.
Alice Miller
#20. They tell us that the rules of power and the rules of war are the same, the art is to deceive; and you will deceive, and be deceived in your turn, whether you are an ambassador or a suitor.
Hilary Mantel
#21. Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive.
Walter Scott
#22. To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary services, and often worse.
Frederic Bastiat
#23. James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!
Johan Oscar Smith
#24. I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart,
Dorothy L. Sayers
#25. What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive." - William Shakespeare
Norman Blume
#26. The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.
Sam Storms
#27. Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
Demosthenes
#28. ... he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#29. That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.
Brother Lawrence
#30. Oh, what a tangled web we weave,' " I intoned, " 'when first we practice to deceive.'
Diana Gabaldon
#31. I lay down to sleep with the resolve that I would not let Galen deceive me any longer, nor persuade me to deceive myself.
Robin Hobb
#32. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)
Eugene V. Debs
#33. Light and air - what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!
John C. Van Dyke
#34. Deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.
Harriet Lerner
#35. We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
Seneca.
#36. I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).
Richard Baxter
#37. William gave the gallerist a grim look. In my experience, he said, crooks are usually the least dishonest of the bunch. It's not in their interest to deceive you, sir. This is how they make their living. Be patient.
Steven Price
#38. Let nothing put me to unease,
nothing to deceive.
I have conceived,
I exist.
Because I am blessed,
To gather time,
in hearing,
my breath,
so tranquil.
To life,
I am, thankful.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#39. I won't lie - I don't care.
And you should quit trying to deceive yourself because I can tell by the way you show no desire to do anything but complain about the issue that you don't honestly care either.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. Don't deceive yourself; laughing at someone's weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. ... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.
Lars Saabye Christensen
#42. It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
John Updike
#43. Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.
Umberto Eco
#44. Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds.
Vironika Tugaleva
#45. No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.
James Rickards
#47. All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.
Lysander Spooner
#48. He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Horace
#49. We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
Jean De La Bruyere
#50. Fake food
I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut
is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
Julia Child
#51. Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
William P. Young
#52. So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"
"Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
Diana Wynne Jones
#53. Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
Tim Cook
#54. Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.
Edward O. Wilson
#55. Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
Michael Leunig
#56. This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.
George Papandreou
#57. Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
Criss Jami
#58. All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term,
Wayne LaPierre
#59. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.
Orest Stocco
#60. He believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves and no end to their capacity to deceive themselves and that though they loved life, they probably loved death more and in the end thanatos would likely win over eros.
Walker Percy
#61. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.
Richard Adams
#62. During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are.
Paulo Coelho
#64. A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#65. No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
Carlos Fuentes
#66. To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
#67. There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
#68. I don't deceive myself. No, I get my clones to do it for me.
Jarod Kintz
#69. She lied not from a desire to deceive but in order to correct reality and mitigate the absurdity that struck her world and mine.
Kamel Daoud
#70. 22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.m
Anonymous
#71. Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive. They can create happiness or inflict enormous pain. You have to know how to get them to talk.
Lee Goldberg
#72. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.
Paul Washer
#74. The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
Honore De Balzac
#75. Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett
#76. In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle.
#77. I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
Agatha Christie
#78. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY has told us that "Not to undeceive, is to deceive";
John Denham Parsons
#79. I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope ... perhaps I wanted to ... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.
George R R Martin
#80. Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
Laurence Sterne
#81. The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Dennis Prager
#83. There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
Boyd K. Packer
#84. In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Casey Affleck
#85. If you don't want to deceive yourself in this new year, don't be a miracle chaser
Sunday Adelaja
#86. Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.
Zoroaster
#87. 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
#88. I am called by many names: Destiny, Fate, Fortune; however, I prefer Moira, for it sounds as if I have a heart.
I do not.
I oversee human destinies, and all things happen exactly as I intend. Some try to deceive me, but I am Moira. I will not be cheated.
Jeri Baird
#89. It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#90. We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
Cardinal Richelieu
#91. Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann G. Seume
#92. Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.
Dalai Lama
#93. My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.
John Wyndham
#94. Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived.
Dianna Hardy
#96. You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using
this as an excuse to make out with me?"
"I'm not that clever, Eric."
"I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile.
Charlaine Harris
#97. Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all - and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.
Sam Harris
#98. It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#99. It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.
Rachel Dolezal
#100. O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Izaak Walton
