Top Deception Quotes
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
All war is deception.
Sun Tzu
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy 
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto
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Marquis De VauvenarguesCharles Dudley WarnerAl GoldsteinKenneth KochLauryn HillClaude DebussyMichael MustoRobert SoutheyAdelbert von ChamissoRaul GrijalvaJohn WanamakerCharles Van DorenEdward V. LucasMartin L. GrossMajor R. Owens
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