"A woman can always deceive a hundred men, but not a single woman."
- Michèle MorganDo not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas JeffersonI think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
- Avram Noam ChomskyDeception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.
- Donna A. FavorsWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
- Robert SoutheyWhen 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