I've never known a musician who regretted
being one. Whatever deceptions life may
have in store for you, music itself is not
going to let you down.
?Virgil Thomson
The people of the world having once been
deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
?Hitoadesa
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
?Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
?Jean De La Fontaine
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive!
?Sir Walter Scott
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
?William Shakespeare
Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
?Armenian Proverb
All deception in the course of life is indeed
nothing else but a lie reduced to practice,
and falsehood passing from words into things.
?Robert Southey
Had the devil come to our first parents
personally and unmasked, they would
have more easily seen the deception.
?Lemuel B. Haynes
