Deceiver Quotes
50 quotes by 44 authors
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes…
— Hannah Arendt
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
— Samuel Johnson
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
— Vincent Voiture
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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many…
— Glen Hansard
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except…
— Bernard Cornwell
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The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There’s…
— Ted Haggard
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their…
— Robert Greene
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
— Hesiod
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Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
— George Crabbe
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The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire…
— Marston Bates
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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
— A. E. Housman
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History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
— Saint Augustine
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But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close…
— Rajneesh
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You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
— Charles Bukowski
Who Wrote These Deceiver Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 50 Deceiver Quotes, led by these top contributors: