Deceiving Quotes

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

Color deceives continuously.

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

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

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

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

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?

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

I detest those who deceive me.

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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.

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Not much to look at, but as with all true beauty it is what's inside that counts.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].

We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?

Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of my face.

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

Success is always sweeter when it is earned the right way. Therefore, you would be deceiving yourself if you ever take pride in using people for what you could get from them.

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth.