Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Bram Stoker

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Ned Yost

Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not.

Agatha Christie

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Bible Bible

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

Aesop

Appearances are deceiving.

Dustin Lanz

He was our go-to guy. He was the main focus and with someone so dominant, we had to get it to him. He went by guys who were slower, and he was pretty much a power guy. He's just super-athletic - it's deceiving how quick he is.

Lois Perrin

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

William Shakespeare

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.

A. S. Byatt

Things are not what they seem.

Legal Maxim

He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived

Frank Crane

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

William Booth

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Petrarch

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Flannery O'Connor

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

Viviana Diaz

The world has been deceived because he is obviously not as ill as we were made to believe.

Angela Davis

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Danish Proverb

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best