When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
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.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.
The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.
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