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
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
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and… — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“We don't think of ourselves as 'unforgiving' or 'bitter'- those words imply that we are somehow personally responsible. We prefer to talk… — Byron Paulus Copy Share Image
Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time… — Vernon Howard 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
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
People keep leaving me, this world keeps deceiving me, selling me false hope and I keep believing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while… — John Owen Copy Share Image
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
