My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my…

Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box…

— Bruce Coville

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 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