Deceiving Quotes - Page 11

• I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

  Agatha Christie

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats - so transparent that they ought to deceive no one.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, Honor

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Dog, People, First Impression

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• What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.35, Рипол Классик

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• Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Soul, Useless

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• Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bait, Action, Honest

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• Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Deceiver

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• You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Brother, Lying

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin

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• When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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• Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Kindness, Believe, Ambition

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.

  Vivian Schiller

  Organization, Media, Perfect

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, People, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Speak, Traps

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• A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

  Socrates

  Art, Children, Distance

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Jobs, Lying, Reality

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Men, Deception, Anarchy

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• Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Beautiful, Majestic, Faces

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• So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

  William P. Young

  Men, Anxiety, Care

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• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, Giving

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• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Religious, Responsibility, Government

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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• Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
  Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
  Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
  I must be held a rancorous enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ducks, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.35, Palgrave Macmillan

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• It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

  Eusebius

  Lying, Mean, Church

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• For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.

  Paul Virilio

  Support, Deception, Perception

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Stupid, Miracle, Made

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

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