Quotes by Deception Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men. Max Frisch encountersdeceptionmen Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism. Maximilien Robespierre deceptionmeanenemy In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us. Mehmet Murat Ildan deceptionlovewar You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception. Michael Hudson economicdeception In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. Michael Musto deceptionyearsideas Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits Michael Novak deceptionlimitsself What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not. Michelangelo sweatdeceptionstruggle The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance. Michel de Montaigne wickeddeceptionpromise The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. Mehmet Murat Ildan talesdeceptionawakening My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave. Mindy Kaling exitdeceptionair Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar. Moss Hart deceptiontoolsself The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man. Muriel Spark unjustdeceptionmen Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception. Napoleon Bonaparte inventiondeceptionmen Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments. Nathaniel Hawthorne deceptionselfsleep See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma. Neem Karoli Baba individual-differenceskarmadeception The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior. Neil T Anderson addictiondeceptionhelping Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards. Nelson Algren deceptionvisionself Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. Norm MacDonald venturedeceptionpeople If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced. Orson Pratt deceptionhonestyworld 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. Osamu Dazai deceptionexamplepeople«7891011121314151617»
