Deception - Deceive Quotes

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

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

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Courtship lifts a young fellow far and away above his common earthly self and by an impulse natural to those lofty regions he puts on his halo and his heavenly war paint and plays archangel as if he were born to it. He is working a deception, but is not aware of it.

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant. His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. (Psalms 55:20-21)