Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team. — Laura Halldorson Copy Share Image
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our eyes are capable of deceiving us. We are even willing sometimes to let ourselves be deceived. — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence. — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry.… — Marie Lu 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
Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary… — Wong Shun Leung Copy Share Image
There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are… — RZA Copy Share Image
