Quotes with deceiver

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• 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. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

  Hannah Arendt
  German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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• Hope lies to mortals
  And most believe her,
  But man's deceiver
  Was never mine.

  More Poems (1936) No. 6, st. 1

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.

  C. Colman
   
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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• ineradicable
• falsehoods
• deceiver
• handsome
• pleasure
• tomorrow

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