Deceived Quotes

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Deceit, World

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hypocrite, Men, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52

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• Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

  Joseph Butler

  Fate, Desire, Action

  'Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel' (1726) no. 7

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• And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

  Clare Short

  Remember, Resolution, Said

  "Today" with John Humphrys, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

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• The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Quests, Vulgar, Versions

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stupid, Would Be, Fraud

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Hype, Deception, Earth

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• Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

  Lord Byron

  Unhappy, Literature, Sometimes

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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Lying, Hype, Deception

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

  Bernard Baruch

  War, Today, Cold

  Address at the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, S.C., 16 Apr. 1947. The term cold war was popularized by Baruch's speech and by Walter Lippmann's 1947 book with that title. An earlier use was by George Orwell writing in the Tribune, 19 Oct. 1945 (see Orwell for this and still older antecedents). Baruch credited speechwriter Herbert Bayard Swope with supplying him with this phrase in 1946 (in a draft speech about United States - Soviet relations). See Orwell

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• Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

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• It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

  Publilius Syrus

  Deception, Tolerable

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• No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Truth, America, People

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• Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

  Socrates

  Errors, People, Deception

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Benefits, Littles, Endeavor

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• It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

  Marguerite Duras

  Love, Men, He Man

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.125, Grove Press

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• I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

  Charles Van Doren

  Quiz Show, My Friends, Millions

  "Quiz Show". 1994.

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• Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

  Gilbert Murray

  Thinking, Analysis, Sometimes

  Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.12, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

  Petrarch

  Suspects

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• Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

  Camille Pissarro

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Risk

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• Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

  Mary Astell

  Mean, Adam, Apostles

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• But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

  Clare Short

  Country, Lying, Iraq

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• We like to be deceived.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deception

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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