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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. -- Oscar Wilde
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. -- Carl Jung
Appearances are often deceiving. -- Aesop
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- David Korten
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance -- Oscar Wilde
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. -- John Morley
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. -- Kofi Abrefa Busia
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. -- Albert Camus
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. -- Janet Jackson
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. -- Hannah Arendt
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. -- Elias Canetti
Looks can be deceiving. -- Meg Cabot
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. -- Oliver Cromwell
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. -- Plato
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. -- Plato
I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. -- Eric Hoffer
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. -- Jeanette Winterson
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. -- Voltaire
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago. -- Julie Burchill
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. -- Mark Twain
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. -- Hesiod
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. -- Camillo di Cavour
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. -- A. N. Wilson
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving. -- John Ortberg
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. -- George Henry Lewes
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. -- Joseph Butler
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts. -- Kerry King
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes. -- Vladimir Putin
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
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. -- Maimonides
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
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
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. -- Hugo Black
I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players. -- Ronaldinho
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. -- Algernon Sidney
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. -- Theodor Herzl
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. -- Buchi Emecheta
Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts. -- Fiona Apple
Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware! -- Mehnaz Ansari
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. -- Antonio Porchia
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. -- Heinrich Heine
Appearances are deceiving. -- Aesop
Appearances may be deceiving. -- Aesop
Appearances often are deceiving. -- Aesop
My religion is not deceiving myself. -- Milarepa
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. -- Aaron Hill
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing. -- James Thurber
Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving. -- Elvis Costello
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely. -- Patrick Marber
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. -- Samuel Johnson
Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving. -- Christian Boltanski
Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain. -- Angelica Hopes
The Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving. Be aware!! -- Mehnaz Ansari
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions. -- John D. Rockefeller
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. -- Guru Nanak
Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team. -- Laura Halldorson
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. -- Adrienne Rich
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves. -- Anthony Trollope
Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone. -- M.H. Rakib
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies -- Kofi Busia
Looks are deceiving, Risa saysAfter all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. -- Neal Shusterman
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. -- Eric Hoffer
Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing -- Jessie J
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. -- John Milton
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. -- Camillo di Cavour
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. -- John Locke
A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm. -- Eulália Marques
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence. -- Ellin Devis
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. -- Neal Shusterman
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. -- Emile M. Cioran
Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving. -- Elizabeth Holmes
I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people. -- Catherine Sanderson
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing. -- Martin Luther
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. -- Horace
Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out. -- Steve Spurrier
You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people. -- Gary Cole
And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding. -- Lil Wayne
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. -- Francis Cornford
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
Guys like him? They were the worst kind. All looks and no heart. Guys not like him? They were all deceiving, freaking asshats. -- Rucy Ban
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals. -- Dalai Lama
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
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. -- John Galt
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led. -- Eric Hoffer
Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it. -- Dean Koontz
She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her. -- Emily Arden
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance -- Oscar Wilde
I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence. -- Bertrand Russell
Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing. -- Fanny Kemble
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
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires. -- Wes Fesler
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. -- John Calvin
The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving. -- Cambria Hebert
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. -- Carl Jung
Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth. -- Julianna Baggott
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 ...
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
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
It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you. -- Jonah Hill
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? -- Leo Tolstoy
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations. -- John Owen
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. -- Vladimir Lenin
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them. -- Bertrand Russell

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