Deceiving Quotes

Appearances often are deceiving. (Aesop)
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. View quote
Oscar Wilde
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. View quote
Jacques Attali
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. View quote
Carl Jung
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees - that is to say, friars. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. View quote
Emil Cioran
When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance. (Oscar Wilde)
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves. View quote
Anthony Trollope
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining? View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. View quote
Theodor Herzl
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. View quote
Antonio Porchia
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. View quote
John Milton
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Looks can be deceiving. View quote
Meg Cabot
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. View quote
Osamu Dazai
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us. View quote
John Lithgow