Deceiving Quotes - Page 5

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

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

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

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

Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

I detest those who deceive me.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.

If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Color deceives continuously.

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

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.

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.

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

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

You’ve no more for me than I have for you.” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!” “You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!

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