Top 100 To Deceive Quotes
#1. Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive
Madeleine Albright
#2. An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
#3. 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
#4. It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#5. Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
Rohinton Mistry
#7. In order to faster become the person I wanted to, I decided to deceive my own dreams.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#8. To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#9. 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
#10. Satan intends to deceive us by getting us to take our eyes off of who we are in Christ and focus on our flaws - and then spend our days figuring out how we can hide them.
Renee Swope
#11. To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others. These harsh words pierced me to the core.
Shinichi Suzuki
#12. The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.
Ezra Taft Benson
#13. I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the
Robyn Schneider
#14. It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Joseph Glanvill
#15. 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
#17. my whole life is nothing else than a daily effort to deceive myself and other people, and to avoid noticing it;
Anton Chekhov
#18. 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
#19. This speedy retreat left Georges-Picot under the impression that 'What the British want, is only to deceive the Arabs.
James Barr
#20. 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
#21. His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Bruno Bauer
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are.
Paulo Coelho
#26. Remember: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.
Robert Greene
#27. 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
#28. He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.
Rafael Trujillo
#29. It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.
George R R Martin
#30. To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
#31. Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.
Emil M. Cioran
#32. There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
#33. Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or in plain English a lie.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
#34. Kerensky he dismissed in yet another snappy line, describing him as 'a balalaika on which they play to deceive the workers and peasants'.
Catherine Merridale
#35. 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
#36. Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
Bianca Jagger
#37. There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
Edward Humes
#38. If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.
Bashar Al-Assad
#40. 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
#41. To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
Plato
#42. I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
Scott McClellan
#43. Duty is a concept created by emperors and generals to deceive us into performing their will. Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others.
Tan Twan Eng
#44. Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
#45. O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#46. Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett
#47. 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.
#48. I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
Agatha Christie
#49. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY has told us that "Not to undeceive, is to deceive";
John Denham Parsons
#50. I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive another and through these variations the world is made more beautiful.
Francesco Vettori
#51. If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.
Rajneesh
#52. We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Vernon Howard
#53. Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we knew we were naked so we hid', leaving God to understand that something was wrong with Adam's logic, because if Adam knew THE TRUTH, he would know that you can't hide from God.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
#54. It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
#55. Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
Martin Luther
#56. O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Izaak Walton
#57. The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
Leo Buscaglia
#58. In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people ... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess
Pope Pius VI
#59. It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#60. Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
Muhammad Ali
#61. Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
Anthony Trollope
#63. Arin thought of Cheat, Tensen, Kestrel. He wondered if some part of him was drawn to lies. What was it that made him so easy to deceive?
Marie Rutkoski
#64. When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending
as do many people I've discovered
to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.
Daniel Keyes
#65. 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
#67. One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record ... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.
Imre Lakatos
#68. Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
Alexander Lowen
#69. In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Pierre Bayle
#70. Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.
Jon Jones
#71. Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
Gustave Flaubert
#73. Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Dejan Stojanovic
#74. My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.
John Wyndham
#75. His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love.
Graham Greene
#76. 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
#77. It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#78. Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann G. Seume
#79. A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#80. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for 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.
Eugene V. Debs
#81. That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
Glen Duncan
#82. A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc De Clapiers
#83. See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin.
Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg
#85. In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Casey Affleck
#86. If you don't want to deceive yourself in this new year, don't be a miracle chaser
Sunday Adelaja
#88. There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means." '"Saruman," I said, "I have heard speeches of this kind before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to deceive the ignorant. I
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
Cormac McCarthy
#90. Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
Baltasar Gracian
#91. Love is beautiful,
A beautiful deception.
One falls in it
To deceive the other
Amit Abraham
#92. 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
#93. My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.
Pud Galvin
#94. We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
Cardinal Richelieu
#95. Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
Ted Dexter
#96. There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
Demosthenes
#98. This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.
Martin Luther
#99. A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
#100. When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
