Deception Quotes - Page 9

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Art lies by its own artifice.

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

I drag my myth around with me.

Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

What else exhausts like sustained deception?

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Art lies because it's social.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.