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When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant! — Thomas Hood

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all... — Josh Burggraf

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! — L. Frank Baum

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception. — Bill Johnson

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

Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there's a God or not. — Nick Harkaway

A natural, polite smile deceives no one. — Ogwo David Emenike

You saw his actions," Bow says, "but not his heart."
Is she serious? "Actions reveal heart."
"Not always. Deception is all about perception. — Gena Showalter

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. — Sophocles

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. — Al Goldstein

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. — Clancy Martin

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Neuroscientists are novices at deception. — Teller

For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles. — Billy Graham

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. — Criss Jami

In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts — John Gray

Lies are a trap, not a deception. — Barry Kelly

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. — George Eliot

A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way. — Neel Burton

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. — Holly Black

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. — Marty Rubin

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple — Mark Rowlands

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. — Oscar Wilde

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C.S. Lewis

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley.
Ollie Chandler in Deception — Randy Alcorn

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception. — Jacques Vallee

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived. — Harshit Walia

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there — Zoe Marriott

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves. — Pierce Brown

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. — Tadeusz Borowski

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base. — Plato

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes. — Chanakya

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed. — S.W. Frank

Beauty is only skin deep but deception goes right to the core. — Jayce O'Neal

Immaculate Deception. — Brad Meltzer

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield

Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. — Imre Kertesz

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. — Soren Kierkegaard

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows. — Anthony Liccione

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. — Aaron Hill

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it. — Nikki Rosen

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words? — Marty Rubin

Some people in your life
Touch you so very deeply
That you drown totally in that depth. — Amit Abraham

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. — Idries Shah

Be careful who influence and inspire your life. Their ways seem like leading to life but the truth is, they lead to eternal death — Ann Marie Aguilar

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies — Fred Munoz

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember. — Katie Klein

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. — Evita Ochel

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

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. — Cortney S. Warren

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud. — Edmund Phelps

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception — Sunday Adelaja

A house built on lies has a weak foundation. — Brom

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception. — Ted Dekker

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. — Heather Brooke

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. — Luc De Clapiers

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future. — Shannon L. Alder

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane. — Walter Keane

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend. — Suzanne Finnamore

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe. — Arrian

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all. — Vernor Vinge

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

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. — Dean Koontz

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth. — Marty Rubin

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story. — Nikki Rosen

Deception is the art of war. — James Patterson

Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told. — Anastasia Hollings

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. — Dave Eggers

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Vincent Voiture

It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake — Antonia Fraser

When I got back from shooting 'Deception,' I was under contract with NBC, so I can't really do anything. — Wes Brown

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden. — Gary Hopkins

The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core. — Jim Butcher

Beauty is a mute deception. — Theophrastus

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make — Loknath

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth. — Dave Cullen

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

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego. — Frederick Lenz

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot. — Suzanne Finnamore

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence — Jacqueline Carey

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

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. — Walter Benjamin

...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener. — Joshilyn Jackson

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. — Henry David Thoreau

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. — Bill Johnson

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted. — Criss Jami

The key method of self-deception about your salvation is to avoid self-examination about the state of your life. The — Gregory Forster