Deceiving Quotes - Page 4

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

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.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

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

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.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

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

Appearances are deceiving.

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

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

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

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