Deceive Quotes

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.