Deceiving Others Quotes

• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  Horace

  Lying, Father, Practice

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• 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

  Love, Life, Breakup

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

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• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.486

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Lying, Self Help

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mark Twain

  People, Deception, Able

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.224, Univ of California Press

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• Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Romance, Sense Of Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.51, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

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• Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

  LeBron James

  Catholic, Doers, Reading The Bible

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• It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Deception, Ends, Ifs

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• We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Dishonesty, Imagine

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• To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Artist, Essence, Practice

  Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.105, Random House

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• We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Tears, Shed

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, World, Sense Of Humor

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