A Quote by Peter Orner

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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Characters Deceit Deceive How Lot Most Other People Stories Themselves Think Tricky

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Peter Orner
American - Writer
Born: 1968

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Matthew Henry

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

Tim Cook

How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.'

David J. Lieberman

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

Jack Abbott

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

Agatha Christie

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

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

Kevin Young

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Patrick Rothfuss

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.