Top 479 Deceive Quotes & Sayings

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

I cannot deceive my people.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

I detest those who deceive me.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Never deceive a friend.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.