A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Begins Best Deceive Deceiving Deceiving Others End Himself Others Possible Will

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

Elspeth Huxley

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Horace

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean de la Bruyere

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

Giacomo Casanova

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Anthony Trollope

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Francis Cornford

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Marcel Proust

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.