Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

Quotes about deception

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

More about this quote

Tags:
reality knowledge world appearance deception
Permalink for this quote

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

More about this quote

Tags:
emotions knowledge deception
Permalink for this quote

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

—Mark Twain

More about this quote

Tags:
truth deception
Permalink for this quote

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

—Virginia Woolf

More about this quote

Tags:
honesty truth others deception
Permalink for this quote

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

—Abraham Lincoln

More about this quote

Tags:
humor deception lying
Permalink for this quote

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

More about this quote

Tags:
wisdom perception generations age deception observation
Permalink for this quote

Despair is a greater deceiver than hope.

—Marqui de Vauvenargues

More about this quote

Tags:
hope despair sadness deception
Permalink for this quote

Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

—Julia Child

More about this quote

Tags:
morality nature deception food eating
Permalink for this quote

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

—Robert Motherwell

More about this quote

Tags:
art necessity deception
Permalink for this quote

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

—André Gide

More about this quote

Tags:
lies deception hypocrisy sincerity
Permalink for this quote

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

More about this quote

Tags:
love optimism deception self-deception
Permalink for this quote

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras

More about this quote

Tags:
love deception lying
Permalink for this quote

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

—Oscar Wilde

More about this quote

Tags:
pleasure lies deception appreciation
Permalink for this quote

At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me.

—Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On

More about this quote

Tags:
love deception charm tenderness
Permalink for this quote