Deceive Quotes

366 quotes by 273 authors

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together.… — Anais Nin
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it… — Libba Bray
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful… — C.S. Lewis
Youâ€™ve no more for me than I have for you.â€ Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: â€œHow can you say so? When I… — Georgette Heyer
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight… — Thomas Ligotti
While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does. — Ann Aguirre
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of… — Elisabeth Elliot
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They… — Ayn Rand
I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool,… — Giacomo Casanova
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally… — Umberto Eco
Weâ€™ve been secretly datinâ€™ since last week.â€ He gives me a smile and a look that says Iâ€™m his one-and-only. That smile might deceive Madison,… — Simone Elkeles
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I… — Rene Descartes
But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive. — Eileen Wilks
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it… — Leo Tolstoy
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like… — Anton Chekhov
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect… — Carlos Fuentes

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