Deceiving Quotes

Appearances are often deceiving.

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

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

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

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

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

Appearances may be deceiving.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

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

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

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

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

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.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

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

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

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Looks can be deceiving.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

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

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

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

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

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Appearances are deceiving.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.