For this will to deceive that is in thing luminous may…

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

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

— Anonymous

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

— Steve Hilton

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

— Tim Cook

“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

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

— Demosthenes

“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 often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld