Deceive Quotes
366 quotes by 278 authors
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
— Bernard Baruch
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
— Casey Affleck
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
— Sissela Bok
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
— Sissela Bok
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
— Albert Camus
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive…
— Thomas Adams
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed…
— Abraham Flexner
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching…
— Cesare Pavese
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Even good people are obliged to deceive.
— Greg LeMond
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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
— Horace
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It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
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