A Quote by Laura Riding

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Laura Riding

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Appearances Deceive Enough Them

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Laura Riding
American - Novelist
January 16, 1901 - September 2, 1991

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

George Horace Lorimer

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.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Eric Hoffer

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Blaise Pascal

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

Matthew Henry

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

J. C. Ryle

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

Agatha Christie

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

Sidney Jourard

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

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.