Deceiving Quotes - Page 3

• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Society, Politics

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

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• Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

  Hesiod

  Guitar, Barns, Literature

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Girl, Sweet, Nice

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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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• Life is the art of being well deceived.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Deceived Us, Deception

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

  Camille Claudel

  Believe, Sleep, Naked

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• As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

  Bridget Riley

  Aquariums, Play, Essentials

  Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”

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• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teaching

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

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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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• Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Couple, Hype, Littles

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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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• 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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• A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Hype, Desire

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• I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Lying, Apology, Promise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

  Mike DeWine

  Hype, People, Parent

  "Lawmakers, health professionals blast entertainment industry for marketing adult material to children" By Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2000.

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• His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

  Bruno Bauer

  Hype, Chains, Harshness

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• Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

  Bianca Jagger

  Media, Hype, Effort

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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Doctors, Neurosis

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Intention

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• When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Want Something, Moral

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Apr 18, 2013

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• Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Successful, Men, Deception

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.73

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• Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

  Fiona Apple

  Dream, Heart, Faces

  Song: Slow Like Honey, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

  Will Rogers

  Real, War, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

  Fiona Apple

  Dream, Sweet, Lying

  Song: Slow Like Honey, Album: Tidal, 1996

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