Deception Quotes

574 quotes by 429 authors

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. — Ambrose Bierce
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C.S. Lewis
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a… — Charles Dickens
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart,… — Ashly Lorenzana
No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, â€˜What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got… — Stephen Hadley
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings… — Carol Tavris
If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental… — Pinchas Lapide
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't… — Laurence Overmire
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.... — Friedrich Schiller
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. — Wes Fesler
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical… — John Negroponte
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel… — Kim Novak
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest
Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple — Mark Rowlands
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well,… — Ajahn Chah
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it… — E. V. Lucas
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception… — Adrian Rogers

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