Deceived Quotes

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

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

The world loves to be deceived.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.