By art and deceit men live half a year; and by deceit and art the other half.
Deception - Deceive Quotes
Don’t be deceived by first impressions.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it’s so lucrative to cheat.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
The perfect deception plan is like a jigsaw puzzle. Pieces of information are allowed to reach the enemy in such a way as to convince him that he has discovered them by accident. If he puts them together himself, he is far more likely to believe that the intended picture is a true one.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
In the end, deceivers deceive themselves.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
There is nothing in the science of human nature more curious, or that deserves a critical attention from every order of men so much, as that principle which moral writers have distinguished by the name of self-deceit. This principle is the spurious offspring of self-love; and is, perhaps, the source of far the greatest and […]
