Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
“A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I'm a deceiver bound up in chains. Painting my face to hide my pain God save me! — Zion Y Lennox Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler.… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image