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We Deceive Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,…
- Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then…
More We Deceive Quotes
- We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think… — Stephen Covey
- If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness. — Dalai Lama
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear… — Plato
- Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson
- Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but… — Laurence Sterne
- We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine
- We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. — Vance Havner
- We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It… — William Hazlitt
- A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. — Marcel Proust