Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Black

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

Lord Chesterfield

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

Orson Welles

I drag my myth around with me.

Joe Girardi

People don't see the ball, they don't have good swings on him. I can't really tell you exactly why, but there's some deception to him. Some of it might be his height, some of it might be the downhill plane all the time, but there's deception to him and I really like it.

Sager is kind of deceptive. He's got good feet, picks his holes well and is a good hitter. Morse is a kid who hits you hard.

Sam reminds me of Glen Johnson. His record is deceptive but this is his opportunity.

Herman Melville

What like a bullet can undeceive!

Erin Hunter

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Franz Grillparzer

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

George Eliot

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

Chris Hedges

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

Francis Bacon

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Jean de La Fontaine

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Not too many 6-5 guys are that fast. Their speed is deceptive. I've watched one player, (it seemed) he gained two steps every 5 yards.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: / All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Carlos Castaneda

it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.

Frank Herbert

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

He's got a real funky motion that's deceptive to hitters.

It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there.

P. C. Cast

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

Ellen Hopkins

The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)

Leo Rosten

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Mary Howitt

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.

Margery Allingham

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Michel de Montaigne

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.