Words matter. These are the best Deceive Quotes from famous people such as Jean de La Fontaine, Ovid, Ted Dexter, George Papandreou, Hesiod, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
First appearance deceives many.
Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
This idea that you’re a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
Men don’t deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It’s a form of fidelity, their deceit.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
I don’t know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little more savvy.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.
I think I can deceive people. I’m like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don’t have any bad intentions. But I’m a bad girl too.
Tonya Verbeek is a rival of mine I always come up against in the semis or the final of the Olympics. We have been fighting each other for a long time, so she knew my wrestling, and I knew hers… I was thinking that the only thing I could do was somehow to deceive her, anticipate her and get in my tackles.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.
A lot of young women ask me, ‘Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?’ Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who’ve elected you is totally unacceptable.
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if ‘facts’ are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
I’ve come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Even good people are obliged to deceive.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what’s going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting – it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
