Quote: No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. Author: Pierre Charron 1541-1603, French Philosopher
Quote: Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Author: Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658, Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England
Quote: Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die. Author: Christopher Hampton 1946-, British Playwright
Quote: Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Life is the art of being well deceived. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. Author: Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra
Quote: Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Author: Homer c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet
Quote: He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic
Quote: You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: We like to be deceived. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Every cloud has a silver lining. Author: Proverb
Quote: To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. Author: Cardinal De Richelieu 1585-1642, French Statesman
Quote: It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality. Author: Francoise Sagan 1935-, French Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. Author: Johann G. Seume 1763-1810, German Theologist
Quote: For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. Author: Robert Southey 1774-1843, British Author
Quote: The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. Author: John Tillotson 1630-1694, British Theologian - Archbishop of Canterbury
Quote: The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. Author: John Tillotson 1630-1694, British Theologian - Archbishop of Canterbury
Quote: A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. Author: Marina Tsvetaeva 1892-1941, Russian Poet
Quote: Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: The art of pleasing is the art of deception. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: Only when you have reached a solitude of stillness and see behind the disguise of desolation, your eyes open to nature's pure beauty. Author: Anonymous Anonymous