Deception Quotes - Page 8

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.