Top 34 Dissemble Quotes

#1. No matter what a person's job is, they should be encouraged to have opinions about the business, industry, customers and partners,

Eric Schmidt

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#2. In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Adam Schiff

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#3. Stannis had never learned to soften his speech, to dissemble or flatter; he said what he thought, and those that did not like it could be damned.

George R R Martin

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#4. It is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

George Eliot

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#5. I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

Tom Felton

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#6. [Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

David Hume

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#7. The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Yehudi Menuhin

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#8. Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

George Farquhar

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#9. Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

James Robertson

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#10. Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

Edgar Allan Poe

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#11. Hope can be cruel, but giving up is worse,

Seanan McGuire

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#12. The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

Joseph Jacobs

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#13. For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Francis Bacon

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#14. The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#15. If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Francis Bacon

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#16. Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

Ivan Klima

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#17. Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.

John Wray

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#18. Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.

Sheila Johnson

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#19. I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

Jamaica Kincaid

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#20. VIII. Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain thee either to break thy faith, or to lose thy modesty; to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust after anything, that requireth the secret of walls or veils.

Marcus Aurelius

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#21. Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

Francis Bacon

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#22. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do
otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to
do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

George Orwell

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#23. We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city.

Elliott Abrams

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#24. When late I attempted your pity to move,
Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
But-why did you kick me downstairs?

John Philip Kemble

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#25. Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

Woodrow Wyatt

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#26. Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

Emily James Smith Putnam

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#27. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

John Tillotson

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#28. Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

Mason Cooley

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#29. It's easiest for me to be blonde because I'm naturally blonde; my roots are light enough that all I have to do is just highlight my hair every few months.

Jennifer Morrison

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#30. Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Susan Cain

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#31. We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#32. But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

Hilary Boyd

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#33. To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.
[Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Cardinal Richelieu

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#34. Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

Aldrich Ames

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