Deception Quotes

574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. — George Eliot
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of… — Sydney J. Harris
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. — Samuel Johnson
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in… — Michelangelo
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow… — Pablo Picasso
What like a bullet can undeceive! — Herman Melville
Art lies because it's social. — Fernando Pessoa
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. — Blaise Pascal
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. — Edgar Degas
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas
We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. — Sidney Jourard
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a… — Eleanora Duse
And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is… — John F. Kerry
My pencil is like a fencer's foil. — Andrew Wyeth
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy. — Mary Howitt
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have… — Wendy Beckett
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the… — Joshua Reynolds
Beauty is a mute deception. — Theophrastus
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste… — Steven Pinker
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. — Aaron Hill
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men. — Rembrandt
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial… — William Graham Sumner

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