Dissembler Quotes

#1. Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Laurence Overmire

#2. It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

Richard III Of England

#4. That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [ ... ] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Matthew Simpson

#6. You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.

Charles Yu

#7. Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Lewis Hine

#8. He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.

David Louden

#9. I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

Britney Spears

#10. If only he had more humor, more life in him; that was what was needed here. Grim places needed lightening, not solemnity,

George R R Martin

#11. We should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. If you hear this fact as discouraging - that you're only one in billions - then flip the script. You are one in billions! Someone has to succeed, so it might as well be you.

Sophia Amoruso

#12. Humility accepts submission to an outside standard. In private we can judge by private standards. We can say that other people just don't understand us.

Eve Tushnet

#13. Mortals simply aren't what they used to be," he said. "A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can't even get you to gamble at all, even for your freedom.

Rachel Caine

#14. Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.

Howard Schultz