They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive…

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate…

— Maimonides

“But whether you’re a memoirist or not, there’s a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past: it may continue to tug on…

— Mary Karr

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their…

— Philip Pullman

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

“The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving…

— Dan Brown

“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

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

— Blaise Pascal

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

— George Henry Lewes

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly…

— Teresa of Avila

“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

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How…

— Ted Dekker

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

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us…

— Roger Waters