Top 164 Deceiving Quotes & Sayings

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Appearances are often deceiving.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

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

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Looks can be deceiving.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

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

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

Appearances are deceiving.

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Appearances often are deceiving.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

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

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

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

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

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.

The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see.

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

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

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

Appearances may be deceiving.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.