Deceive
To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.
To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.
To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
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Deceive Quotations
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Niccolo Machiavelli
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
Deceive Translations
deceive in Danish is bedrage
deceive in Dutch is misleiden, bedriegen
deceive in Italian is abbindolare
deceive in Latin is impono, decipio, ludo
deceive in Portuguese is iluda
deceive in Swedish is bedra, svika, narra
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