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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. — Honore De Balzac

Sometimes what is in front of you and what you are seeing isn't really so. It can, in fact, be quite deceptive. — Ella Frank

It is self- deceptive to simply lie in bed, letting everything run its cause and yet expect to have increase — Sunday Adelaja

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein

We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008. — Elizabeth Warren

Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place. — Phil Elverum

Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown. — Rinker Buck

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. — Robert Breault

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous. — Erin Pizzey

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. — Lucinda Williams

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal

By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words — Sunday Adelaja

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. — Jean Stapleton

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form. — Georges Bataille

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. — David Limbaugh

Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well. — Patricia Briggs

Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY. — Hester Browne

Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Be a leader with exceptional qualities, not deceptive qualities". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. — Craig Stone

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. — James Forrestal

After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility. — John D. MacDonald

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel

Nothing was deceptive. Nothing was much harder to describe or fix or stop. — Kami Garcia

If people would just fill themselves with more faith they wouldn't be an easy prey for Satan and his deceptive ways. — Ben Brocard

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low. — Franz Grillparzer

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. — Pierre Corneille

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive. — Scott McClellan

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity. — Ngaio Marsh

More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent. — Joanne Harris

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. — Franz Kafka

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts. — Woody Hayes

The appearance of plenty can be deceptive. It doesn't always mean a person is well. — Kate Morton

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak

Don't confuse "strict confidentiality" with "keeping employees in the dark." Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive. — Stacy Feiner

How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. — Kate Atkinson

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed. — Vikas Swarup

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Miracle focus gospel is a deceptive gospel — Sunday Adelaja

I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody. — Augusten Burroughs

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions. — Myles Munroe

Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised — Anonymous

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. — Friedrich Nietzsche

'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. — Cathleen Schine

I'd rather stick with reality. Dreams are deceptive. — Nora Roberts

We do battle with our minds and deceptive hearts, that we may might lay our souls down upon the grace of God. — Mike Donehey

It was deceptive, the sunshine- it promised more than it could actually deliver. — Jojo Moyes

Outward appearances are deceptive. What's within them, beneath them, is what matters. — Ryan Holiday

I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive. — John Elkington

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. — Ellen Goodman

Most of their leaders were evil and deceptive, and the majority of the populations followed like sheep being led to slaughter. I — Cameo Renae

God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it. — Lev Grossman

His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive. — Kerry Kletter

Fear of failure is deceptive.
Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.
Courage is inceptive.
It's where success starts. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

He had an honest face, though Adamat found that honest faces were almost always deceptive. — Brian McClellan

Satan is so deceptive! He likes to borrow Christian vocabulary, but he does not use the Christian dictionary! — Warren W. Wiersbe

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system. — Suetonius

When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God's Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive. — Lori Hatcher

If evil gets us to buy into their deceptive lies, then truth never gets a chance to be anything but crazy. — L.M. Fields

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. — Said Nursi

THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY DECEPTIVE ABOUT REALITY. — Alexandar Tomov

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies. — Suzy Kassem

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

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. — Heraclitus

Evil is cruel;
folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss

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

You often don't choose the attractive or the deceptive paths, but they choose you, they pull you to the path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. — Victor Hugo

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. — John O'Toole

Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive. — Wendy Wallace

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. — Kabir

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. — Vaclav Havel

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Vodka is a very deceptive drink. You can't taste it, you can't smell it. — Dylan Moran

Pictures can be pretty deceptive. — Gayle Forman

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. — Leland Stanford

Appearances are deceptive. — Aesop

We admire a faultlessly dressed woman without realizing that this deceptive simplicity hides a world of calculation. — Madge Garland

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. — David Levithan

There is something deep deceptive in the reality. — Alexandar Tomov

Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper. — Joel Stein

Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope! — Lu Xun

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Few things are more deceptive than memories. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You ... see us ... and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history. — Carlos Bulosan

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it. — Larry Hagman

But appearances, while not always as deceptive as people say. — Jose Saramago

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light. — Clement Greenberg