Deceiving Quotes

That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

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.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

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.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

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!

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

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.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

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.

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

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.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

To deceive ones selfe is very easie.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.