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Deceptive Quotes

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

Photograph, Deceptive

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Appearance, Misled, Deceptive

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Football, Deceptive, Courses

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Honesty, Lying, Deceptive

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Despair, Deceptive, Hollow

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Air, Usual, Deceptive

Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4”, p.192, Felony & Mayhem Press

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Writing, Easy, Deceptive

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Memories, Deceptive

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.212, Penguin

Appearances are deceptive.

Appearance, Deceptive

Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Hype, Dallas, Deceptive

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Scott McClellan

Campaigns, Deceptive, Permanent

"McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Honore de Balzac

Novelty, Deceptive, Delightful

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Deceptive

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.20, Penguin

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Delicacy, Cleverness, Deceptive

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Truth, Deceptive, Presumption

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.39, Sheba Blake Publishing

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