Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not… — Crystal Reed Copy Share Image
Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise… — Ted Loder Copy Share Image
Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does. — Karl Germain Copy Share Image
I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my… — Conway Twitty Copy Share Image
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out… — Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
I can not understand, what'll consolation on you , someone have been deceiving on you or did you dupe — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Nothing's picture perfect, looks can be deceiving. What I thought was love was something I could not believe in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
