In life, everyone expects their loved ones to stay truthful to them no matter what happens.But that seldom happens. More often than not, people lie and deceive others, leading to distrust and betrayal in relationships and negatively affecting the minds of those involved.Deceptions are mainly of four categories including concealment, exaggeration, understatement, and equivocation. These can be caused by a tweak in appearance or miscommunications. Living by the truth is of utmost importance for inner peace and meaningful life. These quotes on deception prove that uncovering the truth can lead to growth and maturity. Scroll down to read the whole article.Deception Quotes About LyingRead these deception quotes about lying to perceive how lies can have a long-lasting impact on anyone.“I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche.“Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.” - Criss Jami.“The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.” - ‘Columbine’, Dave Cullen.“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there.” - ‘Shadows On The Moon’, Zoe Marriott.“Anything is better than lies and deceit!” - Leo Tolstoy.“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies and is unvaccinated by suspicion.” - John Updike.“Force and fraud are in war, the two cardinal virtues.” - Thomas Hobbes.“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.” - Marina Tsvetaeva.“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” - Abraham Lincoln.“Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.” - Baltasar Gracian“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.” - Patricia Briggs.“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” - Eugene Victor Debs.“ A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” - Winston Churchill.“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.” - ‘The Mystery Of The Blue Train’, Agatha Christie.“It’s the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.” - Greg Gutfeld.“We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools.” - ‘The Lies Of Locke Lamora’, Scott Lynch.“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.” - Aaron Hill.“Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.” - Rachel Hawthorne.“The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self. For what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true.” - Demosthenes.“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.” - William Somerset Maugham.“You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains." - ‘Liquidation’, Imre Kertész.“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.” - John Ruskin.“Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that. But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together." - McBlane, ‘The Elephant Tree’, R.D Ronald.“Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.” - ‘Chapterhouse: Dune’, Frank Herbert.“It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.” - Major Owens.“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect." - Jonathan Swift.“Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes, we’re willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret.” - Pamela Meyer.Self-Deception Quotes(Deceptions can often be caused by appearance or communication.)We often deceive ourselves unknowingly and it can affect our mind negatively. These self-deception quotes will tell you why.“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.” - Plato.“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” - Mark Twain.“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” - ‘The Art Of War’, Sun Tzu.“Self-deception helps us deceive.” - David Livingstone.“All the things he had said to make himself believe that she was good and kind and that her side was really the right side sounded to him silly now.” - ‘The Lion. The Witch, And The Wardrobe’, C.S Lewis.“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.” - ‘Hamlet’, William Shakespeare.“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.” - Luc de Clapiers.“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” - André Malraux.“It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.” - Anatole France.“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” - ‘Marmion’, Walter Scott.“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice and falsehood passing from words into things.” - Robert Southey.“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”- ‘Orestes’, Euripides.“The Devil hath power/To assume a pleasing shape.” - ‘Hamlet’, William Shakespeare.“If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived, and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.” - Arthur Helps.“When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.” - Mardy Grothe.“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.” - Baron Greville.“Avoidance of self-deception is a matter of integrity, not comfort.” - Orrin Woodward.“The phrase ‘the world wants to be deceived,’ has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle. If it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification, they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them.” - Theodor W. Adorno.“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” - Khaled Hosseini.“Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.” - Moss Hart.“When you start to realize how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realization.” - Jordan Peterson.“In the wake of the unbearable sterile daily noise, their life has turned into a fluid universe of silence, dream, and stillness and their compass has come to be a space beyond fear, deception, and betrayal. Fish never disappoint.” - Erik Pevernagie.“Self-deception is nature. Hypocrisy is art.” - Mason Cooley.“Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.” - James E. Faust.“People are secretive when they have secrets.” - ‘The Secret Life Of Prince Charming’, Deb Caletti.“Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.” - Russ Roberts.“We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld.“Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.” - Lauryn Hill.“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.” - Sivananda.“Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice, I believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.” - Michael Bassey Johnson.Deception Quotes About LoveDeception and love go hand-in-hand. These quotes about deception in love show how people tend to deceive their loved ones more often than people they don’t connect with much. “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” - Oscar Wilde.“Remember, actions speak louder than ‘There’s no cell reception where I am right now.’” - ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’, Greg Behrendt.“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken." - ‘Love Quotes For The Ages’, Dark Jar Tin Zoo.“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.” - Grace Willows.“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” - ‘Emma’, Jane Austen.“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.” - ‘The Woman Of Rome’, Alberto Moravia.“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.” - ‘The Prince’, Niccolò Machiavelli.“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.” - ‘No Longer Human’, Osamu Dazai.“An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.” - John Bevere.“While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.” - Sissela Bok.“His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.” - ‘What Is The What’, Dave Eggers.“Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.” - A.L Goldstein.“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.” - Michael Bassey Johnson.“Deception is everywhere.” - James Sanborn.“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.” - ‘To Kiss A King’, Grace Willows.“We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.” - Sidney Jourard.“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein.“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth–then shut up.” - ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’, Robert A. Heinlein.“People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.” - Charles Dudley Warner.“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.” - ‘White Night’, Jim Butcher.“The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.” - A.S. Byatt.“I can’t count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.” - ‘The Name Of The Wind’, Patrick Rothfuss.Famous Deception QuotesRead a collection of the most famous deception quotes below.“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” - Plato.“The subjects will eventually recall and understand the purpose of the hard things we have done and plan to do to them. The mission of WICKED is to serve and preserve humanity, no matter the cost. We are, indeed, good.” - Ava Paige, ‘The Maze Runner’, James Dashner.“Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.” - Johann Gottfried Seume.“If we take height instead of digging ourselves into a whirlpool of deception or self-sufficiency, we can track down the things we have neglected for so long that can give our lives a rainbow of color and vibrance.” - Erik Pevernagie.“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” - Sherlock Holmes, ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story’, Arthur Conan Doyle.“All warfare is based on deception.” -‘The Art Of War’, Sun Tzu.“People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!” - Israelmore Ayivor.“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” - Alfred Tennyson.“I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.” - ‘Split: A Memoir Of Divorce’, Suzanne Finnamore.“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” - Leonardo Da Vinci.“The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.” - ‘Whiteout’, Cambria Hebert.“No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” - Sara Shepard.“It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.” - John Locke.“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” - Bo Bennett.“Out of my weakness and my melancholy,As he is very potent with such spirits,Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have groundsMore relative than this. The play’s the thingWherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”- Hamlet, ‘Hamlet’, William Shakespeare.“Life is the art of being well deceived, and in order that the deception may succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.” - William Hazlitt.“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.” - Samuel Johnson.“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.” - Mark Twain.“Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.” - George Crabbe.“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.” - Ashly Lorenzana.“In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat, and bribery have all been exhausted.” - Michael Musto.“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - The Wizard, ‘The Wizard Of Oz’, Noel Langley.“You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld.“Politicians are masters of the art of deception.” - Martin L. Gross.“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.” - Evita Ochel.“Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.” - Soren Kierkegaard.“It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” - Noel Coward.“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception, and ignorance, but it isn’t, it’s human.” - Desiderius Erasmus.“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.“Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.” - ‘My Summer Of Love’, Helen Cross.“There’s a degree of deception in silence.” - Don Lemon.“He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.” - Plautus.
In life, everyone expects their loved ones to stay truthful to them no matter what happens.
