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Deception QuotesFamous Deception quotes by popular authors such as Ben Jonson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyril Connolly and others.
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[highlight-text]Skeptics are never deceived.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]A delusion a mockery and a snare.
Lord Denman
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[highlight-text]We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
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[highlight-text]One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Moliere
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[highlight-text]It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de la Fontaine
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[highlight-text]Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.
George Herbert
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[highlight-text]Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Plato
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[highlight-text]You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?
Joel Chandler Harris
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[highlight-text]Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E. R. Beadle
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[highlight-text]Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
Stanislaw Lee
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[highlight-text]Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.
Homer
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[highlight-text]All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
Ben Jonson
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[highlight-text]Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: ''Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.'
Mary Howitt
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[highlight-text]Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
Bret Harte
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[highlight-text]What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
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[highlight-text]One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.
Panchatantra
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[highlight-text]I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens