Deception Quotes
27 quotations about Deception
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Life is the art of being well deceived.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
We like to be deceived.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Authors on Deception
Pierre Charron
Oliver Cromwell
Desiderius Erasmus
Benjamin Franklin
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
William Hazlitt
Hitopadesa
Homer
William James
Jean De La Fontaine
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Blaise Pascal
Plato
Proverb
Cardinal De Richelieu
Johann G. Seume
William Shakespeare
John Tillotson
Marina Tsvetaeva