Deception Quote by Stephen King

“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see…

— A.S. Byatt

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his…

— Upton Sinclair

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

— Dean Koontz

“He did not know what it meant to lie or that soon he would lie to the very woman teaching him the art of…

— Erika Swyler

“…He has finally learned that lying to oneself is an offense for which human beings seldom grant themselves absolution. He comes to believe that…

— James Lee Burke

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual…

— William Godwin

“Roland was so used to the pervasive sense of failure that he was unprepared for the blood-rush of success. He breathed differently. The dingy…

— A.S. Byatt

“Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own…

— Darrell Drake

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

“and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception”

— Arthur Koestler

“The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught…

— Leo Tolstoy Ressurrection

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit…

— Joan Didion