Deceiving Quotes Page 2

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.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Even though we are deceived, still believe.

Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God.

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him;

and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

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

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.

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.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

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.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within;

the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are.

Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

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.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive.

But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion.

Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.