A Quote by J. C. Ryle

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

J. C. Ryle

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J. C. Ryle
English - Priest
May 10, 1816 - June 10, 1900

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

Tim Cook

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

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

Sidney Jourard

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

Agatha Christie

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

Cesare Borgia

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Mark Twain

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

R. D. Laing

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Ruth Rendell

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.

Richard Whately

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.

Peter Orner

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