Deceive Quotes

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

– Jean de La Fontaine

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

– Ignatius of Antioch

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

– Abu Bakr

The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.

– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

– Eric Hoffer

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.

– Ted Dexter

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

– Sissela Bok