Deception Quotes

574 Deception quotes by 429 unique authors

Art lies by its own artifice. — Unknown Author
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one… — Judith Martin
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. — Mary McCarthy
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit… — Lord Acton
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a… — Mary McCarthy
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. — Cardinal Richelieu
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong. — Pindar
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception. — William C. Brown
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions.… — Carl Jung
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar. — Moss Hart
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last… — Alice Miller
Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them… — Xenophanes
Patience protects you from deception — A. R. Bernard
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can… — Joan Bauer
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has… — Dean H. Kenyon
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.… — Sadegh Hedayat
Deception is everywhere. — Jim Sanborn
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,… — Ben Macintyre
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and… — Derek R. Audette
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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