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Quotes About Deceived

for I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me and quicken my pulse. To be always on one's guard, to catch every look and the significance of every word, to guess intentions, foil conspiracies, pretend to be deceived and then to overthrow with one blow the whole vast edifice of artifices and designs raised with so much effort - that is what I call life.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Do not make the mistake I made of thinking we have mystery over the elements of Caradore. What came into me on that fateful day we tried to wake the dragons was feeling intense beyond endurance. That is that nature of water. And the cost of my actions was the I lost he who I loved above all. Bitterness turned that feeling to hate, but I am not deceived. The ghost of what could have been haunts my heart. Do not think you can reach him, because you can't.
~ Storm Constantine
men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules, wherein they are deceived because they afterward find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. This
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Ever since Plato, bourgeois consciousness has deceived itself that objective antinomies could be mastered by steering a middle course between them, whereas the sought-out mean always conceals the antinomy and is torn apart by it.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
It is a real chill out, The genuine thing. I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer Because sun stays and birds continue to sing.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
~ Oscar Wilde
There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one. —Hilary Mantel
~ Lawrence Freedman
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
~ Oscar Wilde
There's a difference," he said, between sorcery and magic. Magic is inherent everywhere, in everything; it cannot lie and it cannot be deceived. Sorcery can lie, can twist, can delude. It may be that you have a gift for one but not the other.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;
~ William Shakespeare
Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow Never to woo her more, but do forswear her As one unworthy all the former favors That I have fondly flattered her withal.
~ William Shakespeare
CHAPTER EIGHT THE DEVIL YOU SAY And the serpent was cunning above every animal of the field which Jehovah God had made. —Genesis 3:1 The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had deceived all the world, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him. —Revelations 12:9
~ Unknown
There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
~ Hilary Mantel
Are you surprised that your desires can be turned to evil uses?" He asked. "You shouldn't be. I know mine can. Such might be said of anyone. It doesn't make you any less trustworthy or true, nor does it lower my estimation of you. Do not be deceived into thinking that you would have acted in the manner that you did without the inducements of the Dylcaer; you would not have.
~ Unknown
But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.
~ Don DeLillo
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
~ Unknown
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
~ Unknown
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - Galatians, 6:7 He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. - William Shakespeare King Lear (Act III, scene vi)
~ Martina Cole