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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. -- Albert Einstein
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. -- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. -- James Forrestal
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. -- Leland Stanford
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. -- Lucinda Williams
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. -- John Burroughs
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. -- Vaclav Havel
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone. -- Nathan Deal
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -- Oliver Goldsmith
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. -- Neil LaBute
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. -- Charles Stanley
The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts. -- Woody Hayes
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it. -- Larry Hagman
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. -- Michael Arndt
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. -- Cathleen Schine
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. -- David Novak
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions. -- Myles Munroe
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past -- Pierre Corneille
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. -- Pierre Corneille
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again. -- Bryant H. McGill
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. -- Robert H. Schuller
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie. -- Paul Begala
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. -- David D. Burns
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security. -- Reince Priebus
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. -- Terry Eagleton
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both. -- James Randi
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?' -- Don Rickles
Appearances are deceptive. -- Aesop
Pictures can be pretty deceptive. -- Gayle Forman
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. -- Honore de Balzac
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive. -- Scott McClellan
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. -- Franz Kafka
Few things are more deceptive than memories. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope! -- Lu Xun
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. -- David Limbaugh
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity. -- Ngaio Marsh
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive. -- Heraclitus
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous. -- Erin Pizzey
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. -- Blaise Pascal
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. -- Said Nursi
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Vodka is a very deceptive drink. You can't taste it, you can't smell it. -- Dylan Moran
There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. -- Craig Stone
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. -- Robert Breault
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised -- Bible
Fear of failure is deceptive.Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.Courage is inceptive.It's where success starts. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. -- David Maraniss
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. -- Jean Stapleton
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. -- Fernand Braudel
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. -- Kabir
Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive. -- John Elkington
What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty. -- Nick Harkaway
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low. -- Franz Grillparzer
Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light. -- Clement Greenberg
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools. -- E. J. Dionne
Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing. -- Garey Gordon
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive. -- Jodhi May
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form. -- Georges Bataille
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive. -- Plato
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable. -- Marc Rotenberg
Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life ,which we have ever wished for. -- Aditya Ajmera
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption. -- Ambrose Bierce
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks. -- Armand Hammer
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities. -- Agnes Repplier
Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct. -- Marie Corelli
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. -- George Eliot
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under. -- Karen White
This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections? -- Paul Washer
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't. -- Laurel Lea
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality. -- Ned Rorem
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.) -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive. -- Richard Whately
But when we set out to understand somebody's inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories? -- Pascal Mercier

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