Deception Quotes

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

What like a bullet can undeceive!

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

Deception is everywhere.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

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.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

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

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.

When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.