Deception Quotes
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When Eve upon the first of MenThe 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
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
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.
— Billy Graham
Lies are a trap, not a deception.
— Barry Kelly
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
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
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.
— Tadeusz Borowski
Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
— S.W. Frank
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
No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.
— Nikki Rosen
Some people in your lifeTouch 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
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
Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
— Sunday Adelaja
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
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
— Suzanne Finnamore
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
— Marty Rubin
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
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
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
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
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
