Deceive Quotes
366 quotes by 273 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You’ve no more for me than I have for you.†Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I…
— Georgette Heyer
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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
— Mark Twain
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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
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While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.
— Ann Aguirre
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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
— Leo Tolstoy
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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We’ve been secretly datin’ since last week.†He gives me a smile and a look that says I’m his one-and-only. That smile might deceive Madison,…
— Simone Elkeles
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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
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But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.
— Eileen Wilks
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Deceive Quotes
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