The truth can deceive as well as a lie.

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

— Eileen Wilks

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

— Eileen Wilks

to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase…

— Marie Lu

“Take heed that if you deceive, lie, intrigue, cheat, you thereby demean yourself. belittle yourself, confess your own weakness beforehand, play the part of…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Deceiving people was natural... It had been my job for so long that lying to protect myself, or those I loved, was as easy…

— Molly McAdams

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

— Eusebius

There are three types of lies One, a lie to protect yourself. Two, a lie to deceive someone else. Three, a lie to protect…

— Anonymous

“He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.”

— Marie Rutkoski

“For a while there was no other sound than the liquid whisper of my brush across paper, and as I painted,I thought about how…

— Marie Rutkoski

“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