A Quote by Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Ben Macintyre

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Adultery Deceit Deceived Deception Espionage Love Love And War Only Party Seduction Some Sort Succeed War Way Willing

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Ben Macintyre
British - Author
Born: 1963

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

Dominic Cummings

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

Pablo Picasso

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Petronius

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Bill Johnson

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

Philip Sidney

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Thomas Jefferson

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

Christian D. Larson

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

William Faulkner

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Caleb Colton

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

Inbar Lavi

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