Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. Votes: 3
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. Votes: 0
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. Votes: 0
Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever Votes: 0
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! Votes: 0
There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel. Votes: 0
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. Votes: 0
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. Votes: 0
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. Votes: 0
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Votes: 0
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution. Votes: 0
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.
But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. Votes: 1 Thomas a Kempis