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Quotes About Deception

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
~ William Hazlitt
Some people may regard my views well and show respect to me, and I hope they have not deceived themselves in doing so. Some people think that I am a leader of a movement.
~ Fethullah Gulen
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.
~ Steve Spurrier
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
~ A. J. Liebling
The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Never expect people to understand, respect or love you, they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.
~ Drake
You mean you haven't been going on romantic dates with Sebastian while you've been away from me?" "I tried," Jace said, "but no matter how liquored up you get him, he just won't put out.
~ Cassandra Clare
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
~ Virginia Woolf
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.
~ Gerhard Richter
Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.
~ Michael Bolton
Who the hell was this woman that he shared a bed with? A life with. Anger and raw pain surged through Harrison as he wondered if he really had married a stranger.
~ Katie Reus, Fatal Deception
I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.
~ Meryl Sawyer, Half Moon Bay
You were a kidnapping waiting to happen - you're lucky it was me.""Luckiest day of my life.
~ Brynn Kelly, Deception Island
I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them, " I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)"You are. You just don't know yet." (Victor)
~ A.B. Whelan, Fields of Elysium
If Gage finds out, he's going to have a cow-horns, balls, and all.
~ Paige Tyler, Wolf Trouble
Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~ Javan
Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.
~ Ten Bears
Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ George Whitefield