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 always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real be...
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.
All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.
