55 Inspirational Deception Quotes That Are Powerful
1. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain
2. “It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.” ~ John Locke
3. “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.” ~ Stephen King
4. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
5. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ~ Winston Churchill
6. “While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.” ~ Sissela Bok
7. “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
8. “Reality denied comes back to haunt.” ~ Philip K. Dick
9. “Don’t tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.” ~ Samuel Johnson
10. “No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” ~ Sara Shepard
11. “Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.” ~ Russ Roberts
12. “Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.” ~ Moss Hart
13. “If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
14. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
16. “The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.” ~ Pierre Charron
17. “Self-deception helps us deceive.” ~ David Livingstone
18. “The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.” ~ Hitopadesa
19. “We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.” ~ Sidney Jourard
20. “An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.” ~ John Bevere
21. “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
22. “A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.” ~ Demosthenes
23. “Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.” ~ Lauryn Hill
24. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
25. “Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
26. “The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is that they think they are cleverer than we are.” ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
27. “We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.” ~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld
28. “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” ~ Alfred Tennyson
29. “Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.” ~ Johann G. Seume
30. “A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.” ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
31. “The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.” ~ Plato
32. “The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.” ~ John Tillotson
33. “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
34. “It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.” ~ Major Owens
35. “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. “To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.” ~ William James
37. “Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” ~ Patricia Briggs
38. “People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.” ~ Charles Dudley Warner
39. “Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.” — James E. Faust
40. “Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game.” ~ Marty Rubin
41. “He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.” ~ Horace
42. “He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.” ~ Plautus
43. “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” ~ Bo Bennett
44. “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
45. “When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.” ~ Mark Twain
46. “All war is based on deception.” ~ Sun Tzu
47. “Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” ~ Plato
48. “You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all.” ~ Jodi Picoult
49. “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
50. “I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
51. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
52. “When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.” ~ Mardy Grothe
53. “Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.” ~ Rachel Hawthrone
54. “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” ~ Leo Tolstoy
55. “Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.” ~ E. V. Lucas
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