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Secret is the mother of all lies.
To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put
What you perceive might deceive you
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception
The lies are in different places.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
DECEPTION is the cancer to any relationship.
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
But sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.
Liars often set their own traps.
All war is based on deception.
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
I understand the need for deception. I should; I live a life of it. Distasteful, perhaps. But necessary.
A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Hidden truths are unspoken lies
The best deceivers are those who know the truth, but denies it.
Everybody lies ... every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
Even good people are obliged to deceive.
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking
but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive,
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
Patience protects you from deception
There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.
The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
Drawing is deception.
We like to be deceived.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
The art of war is the art of deception.
Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil.
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
There is something deep deceptive in the reality.
There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
Self-deception helps us deceive.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
We cannot separate doubt from deception. Doubt robs a man of his confidence; it is a fearful thing. Offer him deception to restore that confidence and he will embrace the falsehood for the comfort it brings. If you would deceive, begin with doubt.
..deceivers must expect to be deceived.
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
Lies emerges when control is unreachable
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Authenticity was the key to any deception.
Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.
You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.
Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
People lie. Promises are broken. A
Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive.
To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
Secrets are lies by another name.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
He who takes delight in deceiving others must not complain when he is deceived himself.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.
Appearances are deceptive.
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.
Where there is deception there is no relationship.
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Veiling truth in mystery.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
Intentions are ambitious liars.
THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY DECEPTIVE ABOUT REALITY.
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
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.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
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.
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire ... .
... .The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty
All lies are not meant to deceive, some become inevitable in a society lacking in transparency and openness.