Deception Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

— Darwin Ortiz

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed”

— L.M. Montgomery

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

— Khalil Gibran

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

— John Christopher

One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious…

— Ricky Jay

A technique is a trick that works.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“Young people dislike and even fail to understand our slang; my gay students ask me what “tricking” means. It’s all old whore’s slang, of…

— Edmund White

Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is…

— Kenneth Branagh

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable