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Deceiving Quotes (page 9)

Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible? time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket. Richard Ford
Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make. And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption. Dean Koontz
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive"
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive Edgar Allan Poe
Plato quote: "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Plato
You’ve no more for me than I have for you.” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!” “You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse! Georgette Heyer
He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him. William Trevor
Walter Scott quote: "O, the tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive."
O, the tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. Walter Scott
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menaechmus of talent, has one dupe,--history. Victor Hugo
It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney. George R. R. Martin
Jane Austen quote: "Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude..."
Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion. Jane Austen
His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love. Graham Greene
Che Guevara quote: "A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to..."
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. Che Guevara
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing..."
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming. Rene Descartes
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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