Deceive Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (D) Quotes

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.

- Alicia Silverstone

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.

- Bianca Jagger

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don`t let your eyes deceive you.

- Janet Jackson

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.

- Maggie Gyllenhaal

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

- George Bancroft

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

- Voltaire

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.

- Marquis de Sade

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

- Sir Walter Scott

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.

- Charles Stanley

the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he`s never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn`t come to believe in what he`d created.

- Bethany McLean

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

- Aaron Grimmer

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one`s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

- Aaron Wichman

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

- Aaron Wichman

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

- Adam Acone

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

- Aeschines

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

- Ahmad Shah Massood

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

- Al Ver

You can`t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

- Alaida Lares

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

- Alan Adler

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

- Alvin Hellerstein

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

- Amar Zahid

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

- Ambrose Redmoon

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won`t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

- Andrea Williams

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

- Andy Violette

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right

- Charles Caleb Colton

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen

- Maimonides

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It's not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

- William Somerset Maugham