Deception Quotes

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Marriage, Makes

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Greatest, Opinions

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi

Him, Others, Himself

All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin

Words, Lying, Essence

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey

Life, Nothing, Lie

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto

Truth, Nothing, Whole

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill

Work, Reality, Hard

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Knowledge, Against

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.
Rush Limbaugh

Everything, Dog, Lies

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
Kenneth Koch

Good, Live, True

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus

Live, Ignorance, Human

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy

Life, Hope, Art

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.
Elias Canetti

Children, Enjoy, Find

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Elizabeth I

God, Live, Thought

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer

Politics, Freedom, Through

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner

Matter, Attempt, Overdo

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers

Men still have to be governed by deception.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Sissela Bok

While, Deceive, Meant

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.
Herman Cain

Tired, Game, Blame

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
John Wanamaker

She, Effect, Believes

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
Edward V. Lucas

Nothing, Boring, Keep

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
George McGovern

Home, America, Nation

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
Kevin Mitnick

Person, Social, Action

The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.
John Sununu

Nothing, Understand, Public

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