Quotes with deceiving

  • While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  • When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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  • Hannah Arendt 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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  • Buchi Emecheta 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.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Horace He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Morley Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Marcel Proust Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Frances Cornford Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
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  • Algernon Sydney Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Heinrich Heine While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Elias Canetti Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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