Deceived Quotes

314 quotes by 240 authors

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. — Simone Weil
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth. — Francis Parker Yockey
No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here; — William Shakespeare
Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low,… — Nawal El Saadawi
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — Oscar Wilde
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints… — Victor Hugo
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,… — Julian Barnes
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste… — Walter Kaufmann
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... — William Faulkner
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight. — P.G. Wodehouse
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. — Abraham Lincoln
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. — Peter S. Beagle
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. — Oscar Wilde
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must… — Baruch Spinoza
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for… — Charles Caleb Colton

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