Deceived Quotes

• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deception, Thee, Thyself

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

  Rene Descartes

  Trust, Deceived Us, Hype

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deceived Us, Deceiving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

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• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Knaves, Fool, Qualms

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Revolution, Rules For Radicals

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Horace

  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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• The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Pain, Light, Heartache

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

  Mark Twain

  Deceiving Others, People, Deception

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.224, Univ of California Press

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Honesty, Deception

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• The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Jesus, Lakes

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is none deceived but he that trusts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Trust, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Abuse, Balance

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• No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Assessment, Self Assessment

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• The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Way, Oneself

  "The Atlanta Co-Ed Murder". Book by Glen C. Carrington (p. 165), August 2010.

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• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

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

  Sissela Bok

  Hype, Deception, Deceiving

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.7, Vintage

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• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Breakup

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

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• Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Hatred, Dishonesty

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• Things are not what they seem.

  A. S. Byatt

  Things Are Not What They Seem, Seems

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• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deception, Investing, Deceiving

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hype

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

  William Booth

  Men, Rocks, Sea

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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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