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What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient! — John Milton

During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are. — Paulo Coelho

A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships. — Anthony Liccione

In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world! — Arthur Schopenhauer

All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception. — Dada Bhagwan

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change. — George Papandreou

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them. — Marquis De Sade

If you are grading your own test, will you pass every time!

Be careful of your self-perception because it could deceive you. — Marion Hill

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves. — Austin O'Malley

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. — Bruno Bauer

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself. — Hjalmar Soderberg

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

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

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. — Jeremiah

Don't deceive me. Never leave me. — Patrick Ness

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. — Marjorie Bowen

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. — Janet Jackson

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. — Dejan Stojanovic

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes. — George Herbert

Even in death, a good man would not deceive. — Publilius Syrus

Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you touch, those things cannot lie. — Jasinda Wilder

Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye. — Sol Stein

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love. — Elif Shafak

- Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?
- Yes, and many others - all of them but you. — Charles Dickens

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. — Saint Augustine

A lie is any communication with intent to deceive, — Stephen R. Covey

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. — Dennis Prager

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. — Jeanette Winterson

Don't be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you. — Israelmore Ayivor

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth. — Ivan Panin

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

Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one's own Self. — Dada Bhagwan

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. — Marcel Proust

Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived. — Dianna Hardy

That's insane! But then, we're talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren't renowned for their rationality. — Jennifer Bosworth

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean De La Bruyere

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later: — Bram Stoker

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

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled. — Martin Luther

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. — Dennis E. Adonis

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Subtlety may deceive you; intedrity never will. — Oliver Cromwell

He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that. — Marie Rutkoski

A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm. — Eulalia Marques

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again. — Denis Diderot

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

Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. — Gustave Flaubert

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

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. — Sidney Jourard

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

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. — Robert Breault

Beauty was the ultimate arsenal. Beauty was meant to deceive. It was meant to trick and beguile so their prey never saw death coming. — Pepper Winters

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. — Vernon Howard

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world. — Howard Thurston

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy

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

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it. — Nicolas Chamfort

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive. — Walter Scott

If a person trusts you and you deceive him, it's fraud. If a person doesn't trust you, it's politics. — Gurazada Apparao

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

... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,' " I intoned, " 'when first we practice to deceive.' — Diana Gabaldon

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. — George Herbert

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. — Karl Germain

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day. — Jane Bowles

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Anyone can deceive us .... for a time.
[KGB] — Tom Clancy

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals. — Moshe Katsav

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. — Bo Bennett

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community. — David Platt

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer

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

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust. — Cesare Borgia

You would deceive me for a single kiss." "I would raze worlds for a single kiss." "Try saving one, for far more than that. — Karen Marie Moning

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive. — Moliere

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive. — Eileen Wilks

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. — Agatha Christie

Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself. — Ken Liu

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus