The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Hope deceiving as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I've always thought of beauty therapy 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.