862 Quotes About Deception

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

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.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.