A Quote by Agatha Christie

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

Agatha Christie

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Deceive Did Most Permitted Yourself

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Agatha Christie
English - Writer
September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Olusegun Obasanjo

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

Matthew Henry

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

Eric Hoffer

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

J. C. Ryle

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

Cesare Borgia

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

Sidney Jourard

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

Mark Twain

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.