There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Vincent Voiture Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Satan, the master deceiver, works best when he is underestimated, ignored, or denied.” — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler.… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which… — Herbert Fingarette Copy Share Image
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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