Dissembling Quotes

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

“As a child I had been quiet and invisible when troubled; as an adult, I had hidden my mental illness behind an elaborate construction of laughter and work and dissembling.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same

“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

“Er livet en eneste lang øvelse i å late som ingenting? Er det derfor de gamle sitter og stirrer ut i luften og hverken gråter eller ler?”
― Nina Lykke, Orgien, og andre fortellinger

“Punctually at Christmas the soft plush
Of sentiment snows down, embosoms all
The sharp and pointed shapes of venom, shawls
The hills and hides the shocking holes of this
Uneven world of want and wealth, cushions
With cosy wish like cotton-wool the cool
Arm's-length interstices of caste and class,
And into obese folds subtracts from sight
All truculent acts, bleeding the world white.”
― W.R. Rodgers

“He is, he prides himself, adept at dissembling: at reading the thoughts of others, at guessing where they will jump, what they will do next. Life with a quick-tempered parent will hone these skills at an early age.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet