Deceive Quotes
First appearance deceives many.
OvidOvid I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
Otto von BismarckOtto von Bismarck Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JuvenalJuvenal And those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
Al-Shafi'iAl-Shafi'i Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
DemosthenesDemosthenes We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolo MachiavelliNiccolo Machiavelli They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Erica JongErica Jong Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
Cato the YoungerCato the Younger