Quotes about Deception

“We like to be deceived.”

“Life is the art of being well deceived.”

“Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”

“Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.”

“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”

“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”

“It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

“To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.”

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”

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

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”

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

“To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.”

“The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.”

“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”

“The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.”

“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”

“The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.”

“The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.”

“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

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

“He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.”

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

“The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.”

“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.”