And not only is the clever liar an object of admiration, but the person whom he deceives is an object of ridicule.
In our endeavour to learn the truth we are frustrated by him who deceives us, and he becomes an object of our resentment.
Since then keen lessons that love deceives And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree And a pond edged with grayish leaves.
He would repay a very close analysis, for he may deceive the elect in the same way as, we suppose, he deceives himself.
For if foresight here deceives me not, they will be sad ere he who is now consoled with the lullaby covers his cheeks with hair.
All the errors of man are physical: he never deceives himself but when he neglects to return back to nature, to consult her laws, to call practical knowledge to his aid.
If the heart deceives us, if the voice of duty leads us astray, the disorder is at the very core of our being; our nature is ill constructed.
If perfection alone exists, how comes that imperfect mind to exist which deceives itself in believing in the reality of the world?
But he rarely succeeds in keeping this position, and deceives his reason by confounding the laws which he discovers with the causes with which his mind is not able to dispense.
The need for adoration is not destroyed in his soul, and he deceives himself.
He experienced that painful awakening of a sick man whom a doctor deceives for months, who learns some fine morning that he is to be taken at once to an hospital to undergo an urgent surgical operation.
Can she," he said, "who has been so deceitful herself, complain if the man deceives her?
She deceives with him her friends, her family, her relatives!
Nothing shows him the truth, everything deceives him.
Thus the clear prediction of the time, and the obscure intimation of the blessings, deceives only the wicked.
Thus while the present never satisfies, experience deceives us, and from misfortune to misfortune leads us on to death, eternal crown of sorrows.
Who deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Every man deceives himself while he thinks he is deceiving others; and forgets that the time is at hand when every illusion shall cease, when fictitious excellence shall be torn away, and all must be shown to all in their realestate.
But memory, however impartially distributed, so often deceives our trust, that almost every man attempts, by some artifice or other, to secure its fidelity.
Married but a few weeks ago to the brave old son of Job, her parents' friend, she deceives him with a young coxcomb, the hussy!
And woe to him who deceives one of these children!
Then at the first, let every lover of GOD see that ye yearn not to mingle with the world, that hinders and deceives all who deal with it, and hinders them from the many good deeds they might do.
But the devildeceives many that are meek, through tribulations, and reproofs, and back-bitings*.
He held that they who perfectly understand the nature of things can explain themselves very well concerning them, but that a man who has not that knowledge often deceives himself and others likewise.
It is most plain," said Euthydemus, "that it is he who deceives with premeditate design.
Nevertheless, I will venture to say that he is the most unjust who deceiveshis friend deliberately.
Now, though the human mind deceives itself by a partial acquisition of the truth, it never retreats, and this perseverance in progress is proof of its infallibility.
The resemblance of their appearance deceives the mind, as is usual, and makes us imagine a thorough resemblance and conformity.
The smooth and uninterrupted progress of the thought, being alike in both cases, readily deceives the mind, and makes us ascribe an identity to the changeable succession of connected qualities.
I say the heroine of the book deceives her husband with a baritone.
Then he leaves you and deceives you In spring days.
Now it is the office of the wise man to order rightly both himself and others, according to the Phoebus of philosophers, Aristotle, who deceives not nor is deceived in human things.
The reverence of God is revealed to us by books, the virtues by which He is worshipped are more expressly manifested, and the rewards are described that are promised by the truth, which deceives not, neither is deceived.
Reformers deny this, but admit that he deceives people into believing that he can do so, either by getting hold of a dead body, and restoring animation.
But he should regard this matter seriously, since nothing escapes and nothing deceives the eye of God.
For there is scarcely anything which deceives more penitents than that subtle and profound dissimulation by which they oftentime pretend, even to themselves, a violent hatred of sin and a purpose to lead a better life.
For the faith which rests on the promise of Christ never deceives nor fails.
No one deceives himself as to the suffering in the world; but he deceives himself who thinks that he alone can bring about a better condition.
Whoever thinks he can do without the world, deceives himself much; but whoever thinks the world cannot do without him, deceives himself much more.
We are well aware that it covers the whole of our life, and that at its centre there reigns an intelligence which never deceives itself, which none can deceive.
No one deceives them; they merely deceive themselves.
Evolution in vain attempts to account for the wonderful complex adjustments we see in nature, such as the mimicry of animals and plants; the walking stick so closely resembles a twig that it deceives the closest observer.
In all this she deceives not only the world, but herself.
The instinct of a woman, which, in these cases, never deceives her, warned Marynia that she had made an uncommon impression on Zavilovski; that that impression increased with every meeting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
