Deception Quotes

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is w...

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every dece...

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part ...

So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that wi...

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?

Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But ...

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too...

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly a...

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly ...

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge whi...

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

"Will you walk into my parlour?" Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That e...

Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opi...

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselv...

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they c...

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, trul...

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both part...

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend i...

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throug...

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceiv...

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a buste...

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t bel...

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwaverin...

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it ...

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when usin...

What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd...

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me....

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant,Oh! what a thousand pities thenTh...

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with ...

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who di...

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and t...

Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the sayin...

Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and ...

Now Ravana said to himself, "These are all petty weapons. I should really get down to proper busines...

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and...

Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many year...

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow v...

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the va...

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a ...

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe whi...

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards ...

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can...

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a ca...

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to co...

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage ...

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.False teachers use high-sounding words...

The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Satan’s method has often been to imitate God.Satan is still using this form of deception, and often ...

For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is ...

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, ...

There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at...

Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it . ...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.False teachers use high-sounding words...

The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Satan’s method has often been to imitate God.Satan is still using this form of deception, and often ...

For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is ...

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, ...

There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at...

Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it . ...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference ...