In love deceit almost always goes further than mistrust.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Diane Arbus
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Bible
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Bible
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Wes Fessler
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
Japanese Proverb
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
John Tillotson
Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
Ovid