In the intricate dance of human relationships, deception weaves its complex patterns, often leaving behind a trail of broken trust and shattered illusions.
To be deceived is to face a painful truth masked by a comforting lie, challenging our perceptions and testing our resilience.
Join us as we delve into the world of deceived quotes—exploring the depths of betrayal, the lessons learned, and the strength found in uncovering the truth behind the facade.
Here are some amazing Deceived Quotes.
Deceived Quotes
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. ~ Camille Pissarro.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ~ Sissela Bok.
Do not be deceived by impostors. ~ Clayton M. Christensen.
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception… I have deceived my friends – and I had millions of them. ~ Charles Van Doren.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ~ Samuel Johnson.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ~ William Hazlitt.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. ~ Petrarch.
The world loves to be deceived. ~ Sebastian Franck.
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them. ~ Gilbert Murray.
Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances – men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! ~ William Booth.
It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. ~ Taylor Caldwell.
Best Deceived Quotes
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. ~ Emil Cioran.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? ~ Joseph Butler.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ~ Simone Weil.
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. ~ Marguerite Duras.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro.
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. ~ Johann G. Seume.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. ~ Charles Caleb Colton.
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. ~ Sun Myung Moon.
Top Deceived Quotes
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. ~ Camille Claudel.
I’m not deceived by people, because I don’t pay attention to people. ~ Yves Saint Laurent.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. ~ Giacomo Casanova.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? ~ Benjamin Franklin.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. ~ Ignatius of Antioch.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough. ~ Frank Crane.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ Confucius.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. ~ Aristotle.
My heart aches for America and its deceived people. ~ Billy Graham.
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word ‘impossible’ is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. ~ Jules Verne.
Short Deceived Quotes
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ~ Rene Descartes.
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth. ~ Francis Parker Yockey.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ~ Rene Descartes.
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it’s a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters. ~ Michael Cadnum.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived? ~ Eliza Cook.
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. ~ Mary Astell.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. ~ Lord Byron.
