#deceive

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The easiest person to deceive is one's self. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'. ↗

— George Colman

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This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

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Who naught suspects is easily deceived. ↗

— Petrarch

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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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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

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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