Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

William Shakespeare

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.

It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?

Jules Renard

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived

William Booth

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

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

Gloria Allred

Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.

Jean Giraudoux

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Jean Fontaine

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver

Alan Arkin

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Walter Kirn

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

A. S. Byatt

Things are not what they seem.

Petrarch

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court,

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it

Abraham Lincoln

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.

AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

And yet, they go out to teach others. They are deceived, and they deceive their companions. O Nanak, such are the leaders of men.

The world has been deceived because he is obviously not as ill as we were made to believe.

These people are so desperate to get health insurance for their families that they are very easily deceived by these ads.

Craig Johnston

I'm not denying anything. I wasn't trying to deceive anyone. But it was wrong. I overstepped the rule. It has happened before. But it won't happen in the future. I should have known better.

Flannery O'Connor

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

Benjamin Franklin

He that goes far to marry, will either deceive or be deceived

I don't think Lula knew about this, but I feel deceived by all the people who were working for him,

I know she felt deceived and hurt, but she was more worried about him and the people he was surrounding himself with.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.