He believed me, and I was overwhelmed by bitterness when I…

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

— Pierre Bayle

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

— Che Guevara

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

— Demosthenes

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

“His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his…

— Graham Greene

“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”

— Eileen Wilks

“In my opinion, a lie is a physical act, verbal statement, or omission, deliberately designed to deceive another of the truth.”

— David Craig

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to…

— Carlos Fuentes

“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

— Marcel Proust

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.”

— Margaret Atwood

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche