An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
Larry Hagman
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
Paul Begala
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
John O'Toole
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
Lucinda Williams
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
Nathan Deal
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Leland Stanford
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
James Forrestal
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