Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

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

A. S. Byatt

Things are not what they seem.

He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived

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

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!

Petrarch

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Flannery O'Connor

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

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

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

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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Voltaire

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Rene Descartes

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.