Who can deceive a lover? [ Virgil ]

First appearances deceive many.

To deceive oneself is very easy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive. [ Sir Walter Scott, Marmion ]

Appearances deceive
And this one maxim is a standing rule:
Men are not what they seem. [ Havard ]

The king cannot deceive or be deceived.

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. [ Goethe ]

Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled. [ Petrarch ]

Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. [ Proverb ]

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [ La Fontaine ]

He that would deceive the fox must rise betimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [ Cicero ]

Women sometimes deceive the lover - never the friend. [ L. S. Mercier ]

It is an ill thing to be deceived, but worse to deceive. [ Proverb ]

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. [ Beaumarchais ]

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. [ Seume ]

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. [ Proverb ]

Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]

We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]

We often shed tears which deceive ourselves after having deceived others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God Himself, were it possible. [ Bancroft ]

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do ourselves. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

It is a pity that we so often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. [ Empress Irene ]

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do our own selves. [ Schopenhauer ]

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. [ Addison ]

There is no man easier to deceive than he who hopes; for he aids in his own deceit. [ Bossuet ]

Till their own dreams at length deceive them, And oft repeating, they believe them. [ Prior ]

It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. [ Demosthenes ]

Women often deceive to conceal what they feel; men to simulate what they do not feel - love. [ E. Legouve ]

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. [ Pascal ]

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived by others because we first deceive ourselves.

Individuals may deceive and be deceived; no one has deceived every one, and every one has deceived no one. [ Bonhours ]

The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. [ Plato ]

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. [ Boileau ]

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]