Deceiver Quotes

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Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor… — Isocrates
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant,… — Barbara Tuchman
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt;… — Criss Jami
Imagination is a powerful deceiver. — Elvis Costello
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. — Tobsha Learner
We are our own aptest deceiver. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit… — Samuel Johnson
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I… — Luther Burbank
Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver. — Andrew Davidson
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! — Leo Tolstoy
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I… — Louis MacNeice
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,… — Neil Gaiman

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