The deceiver deceived. [ Lessing ]

The world likes to be deceived. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Better be denied than deceived. [ Proverb ]

He who trusts not is not deceived. [ Proverb ]

The king cannot deceive or be deceived.

Life is the art of being well-deceived. [ Hazlitt ]

The world is still deceived by ornament. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is none deceived but he that trusts. [ Proverb ]

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. [ Goethe ]

He that is presently denied is least deceived. [ Proverb ]

He that trusts to the world is sure to be deceived. [ Proverb ]

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

To suspect a friend is worse than to be deceived by him. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice. [ Proverb ]

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]

Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners. [ Bible ]

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

Ill-fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. [ Ben Jonson ]

To be deceived by a promise, is worse than to be put by one's hopes. [ Proverb ]

It is riot being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. [ Mme. Sophie Arnould ]

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. [ Dr. Watts ]

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

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. [ Lamartine ]

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

No, no! I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. [ Rochefoucauld ]

No one has deceived the whole world, nor has the whole world ever deceived any one. [ Pliny the Younger ]

The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. [ Hitopadesa ]

He whom fortune has never deceived rarely considers the uncertainty of human events. [ Livy ]

Women deceived by men want to marry them: it is a kind of revenge as good as any other. [ Beaumanoir ]

Dangers are light, if they seem light; and more dangers have deceived men than forced them. [ Bacon ]

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. [ Mackenzie ]

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 ]

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. [ Colton ]

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. [ Montesquieu ]

The difference between you and me, said a philosopher, is that you say to masked hypocrites, I know you, while I leave them with the idea that they have deceived me. [ Chamfort ]

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]

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 ]

Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]