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The art of pleasing is the art of deception. -- Luc de Clapiers
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. -- Al Goldstein
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Deception is everywhere. -- Jim Sanborn
Deception is the knowledge of kings. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. -- Terry Brooks
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State. -- James Jesus Angleton
Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win. -- Janet Morris
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things. -- Thomas Sowell
Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception -- Randy Alcorn
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power -- Robert Greene
Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul -- Donna A. Favors
Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple -- Mark Rowlands
Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated. -- Molly Friedenfeld
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic. -- H. G. Wells
Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. -- Clancy Martin
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived. -- Ben Macintyre
A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living. -- Christopher Buehlman
We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more. -- Scott Lynch
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly at times, but if you hang with them for a while their true colors will eventually begin to show. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun. -- Darrell Drake
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything. -- Jonathan Franzen
Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action. -- Jonathan Eig
It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in the politics of the powerful, and certainly are in Israel's policy toward the Palestinians from the start. -- Tanya Reinhart
All warfare is based on deception. -- Unknown
All confrontation is based on deception. -- Paul Watson
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. -- Sophocles
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work. -- Lauryn Hill
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. -- John Ruskin
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. -- Sissela Bok
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? -- Claude Debussy
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -- Benjamin Franklin
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. -- Elizabeth I
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. -- Sun Tzu
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. -- Horace
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. -- William Hazlitt
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. -- George McGovern
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. -- Robert Southey
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. -- Heather Brooke
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. -- Robin Marantz Henig
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception. -- John Sununu
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. -- Maximillian Degenerez
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. -- Claude Debussy
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home. -- Major Owens
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. -- Michael Musto
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. -- Andrew Bird
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. -- Kevin Mitnick
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. -- Xun Zi
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception. -- Stacy Schiff
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. -- Raul Grijalva
Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are. -- David A. Bednar
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. -- Peter Singer
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't. -- Kim Novak
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations. -- William Graham Sumner
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it -- Thomas Jefferson
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things -- Robert Southey
I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them -- Avram Noam Chomsky
Drawing is deception. -- M. C. Escher
Self-deception helps us deceive. -- David Livingstone
All war is deception. -- Sun Tzu
Love feeds on deception. -- Erol Ozan
Beauty is a mute deception. -- Theophrastus
Love cannot reconcile with deception -- Susan Abulhawa
Patience protects you from deception -- A. R. Bernard
Neuroscientists are novices at deception. -- Teller
What else exhausts like sustained deception? -- Leif Enger
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. -- Hannah More
Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning. -- David Platt
Politeness is deception in pretty packaging. -- Veronica Roth
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. -- Mason Cooley
All war is based on deception. -- Sun Tzu
Coquetry is the art of successful deception. -- Louise Colet
Compromise is the welcome mat to deception. -- Bill Johnson
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. -- Plato
There's a degree of deception in silence. -- Don Lemon
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid. -- Bertrand Russell
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. -- George Orwell
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. -- Karen Horney
Compromise is the door through which deception enters. -- Bill Johnson
The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. -- Pema Chodron
Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.... -- Rajneesh
Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits -- Michael Novak
Men still have to be governed by deception. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.... -- Friedrich Schiller
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. -- John Bevere
Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception. -- Steve Fowler
The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception -- Robert Todd Carroll
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception. -- Gertrude Atherton
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men. -- Rembrandt
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar. -- Moss Hart
I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned. -- George Washington
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception. -- Ann Druyan
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception. -- William C. Brown
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge. -- Teju Cole
Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time. -- Marty Rubin
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. -- Frank Herbert
Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. -- Beth Moore
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. -- Orrin Woodward
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. -- E. V. Lucas
The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception. -- Max Anders

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