Deception Quotes

574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors

No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘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
An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man… — Ezra Taft Benson
Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning. — David Platt
No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks… — John F. Kennedy
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie. — Jennifer Chiaverini
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth… — Jaron Lanier
There's a degree of deception in silence. — Don Lemon
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin
It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in… — Unknown Author
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the… — Renzo Novatore

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