Deceive Quotes
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.
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Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court.
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Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.
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It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
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Don't deceive me. Never leave me.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
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I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
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Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.
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Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.
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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.
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
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Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
