The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is beautiful, A beautiful deception. One falls in it To deceive the other — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Those two are trying to hide,’ Chéri thought. ‘They’re deceiving someone somewhere. The whole world’s busy deceiving and being deceived. But I… — Colette Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He's just very deceiving. He just covers a lot of ground with ease. I got to the three-eighths pole, and I even… — Ramon A. Dominguez Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth. — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself. — Johanna Spyri Copy Share Image
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. — Marjorie Bowen Copy Share Image
