Deceiving Quotes
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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
William Shakespeare
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
Seneca the Younger
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Casey Affleck
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
Demosthenes
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.
Cato the Younger
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It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.
Elton Welsby
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Hugo Black
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My religion is not deceiving myself.
Milarepa
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black
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Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?
Murray Walker
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Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
Elvis Costello
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But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
Eileen Wilks