Deception Quotes
574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as…
— Michael Musto
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
— George Orwell
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
— Elvis Presley
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
— Knute Rockne
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
— John Ruskin
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A promise made is a debt unpaid.
— Robert W. Service
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
— William Shakespeare
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
— William Shakespeare
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how…
— Peter Singer
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Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
— Todd Solondz
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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
— Robert Southey
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
— Leo Tolstoy
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
— Alan Turing
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
— Mark Twain
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Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer,…
— John Wanamaker
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
— Oscar Wilde
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
— Oscar Wilde
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Who Wrote These Deception Quotes
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