The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within. — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do I look feeble to you" "Actually, yes." "Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
