Deceive

Famous quotes containing the word deceive:

“Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fancied superiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“It may be possible to deceive men, but one cannot deceive the gods.”
—Chinese proverb.