Deceiver Quotes

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. - Bible

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. - Hesiod

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. - Hannah Arendt

The school board did a pretty good job of massaging the ballot language. They're deceivers and you get sucked in. - Fred Birchard

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never; Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny. - William Shakespeare

O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain. - Oliver Goldsmith

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, / Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. - Bible

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. - Niccolo Machiavelli