Deceiving Quotes - Page 16

• It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Sports, Men, Play

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• Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or - in plain English - a lie.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Lying, Taken, Water

  "Leftists are immoral: Pray for them" by Christopher Monckton, www.wnd.com. December 24, 2013.

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• Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Innocence

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• Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

  George Zimmerman

  Firsts, Cheat, Conceit

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• Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Trying, Deceit, Cunning

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• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Mean, Loss

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• Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love, Men, Honest

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• Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lost, Charlatans, Cease

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Character, Men

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.621

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• Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.

  William Warburton

  Fire, Numbers, Mutual Interest

  William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.136

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• Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]

  Cato the Younger

  Art, True Friend, Thinking

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• Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.

  Jon Jones

  Lying, Men, Evil

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• If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

  Bashar al-Assad

  People, Want, Cosmetics

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• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

  George Bancroft

  Honesty, Hype, Deception

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• Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

  Peter Orner

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.

  LeCrae

  Heart, People, Bags

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Lying, Believe, People

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• Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Self, Evil

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• Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Sincere, Trust Others

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• Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.

  Alexander Viets Griswold

  Stupid, Law, Obamacare

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• Hillary, you're a strong woman, you're an intelligent woman - you're not a good woman. But if you want to do good, let the Black man go, and stop deceiving them, that you are really their "friend." If you were their friend, why did you kill Muammar Gadhafi?

  Louis Farrakhan

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Black

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

  Jonah Hill

  Hurt, Home, People

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Press conference, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

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• It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.

  Catherine Sanderson

  Art, Mistake, Long

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• Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Dream, Fear

  Mike Dooley (2007). “Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

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