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Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.
The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.
Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.
Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.
The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.