Deceiving Quotes - Page 21

• Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

  Kerry King

  Numbers, Albums, These Days

  "Q&A: Slayer’s Kerry King". Interview with David Marchese, www.spin.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Government, Numbers

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Butterfly, Men

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Faithful, Deceit

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

  Dean Koontz

  Mistake, Men, Long

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Men, Law

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• What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!

  John Irving

  Lying, People, Wife

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.316, Random House

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• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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• I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.

  Rene Descartes

  Judging, Desire, Use

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Long, Can Do

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• But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

  Eileen Wilks

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.117, Penguin

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• So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Coward, Way

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• There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hands, Promise, Enemy

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

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• to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

  Marie Lu

  Running, Lying, Promise

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin

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• When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

  Daniel Keyes

  Order, People, Annoyed

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.65, Heinemann

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• It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cheating, Thinking, Failing

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

  Casey Affleck

  Trying, Theater, Deceived

  "Roger Ebert still has questions for Casey Affleck". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children, Men, Sometimes

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.241, Courier Corporation

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• For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

  Patrick Süskind

  Brother, Hate, Heart

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• No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Want, Our Society, Protect

  Carlos Fuentes (2012). “Happy Families”, p.76, A&C Black

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• He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Running, Two, People

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

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