Quotes About Deception

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.