Dissimulate Quotes & Sayings

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending — Jean Baudrillard

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage. — William Beckford

How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes! — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them). — Jean Baudrillard

The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point. — Jean Baudrillard

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are. — Doris Humphrey

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love. — George Sand

I'm not 100 percent certain, but I think my cup of coffee just said, You're my bitch. — Darynda Jones

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc De Clapiers

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings. — Cardinal Richelieu

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it. — Pablo Picasso

The superflu we can charge off to the stupidity of the human race. It doesn't matter if we did it or the Russians, or the Latvians. — Stephen King

But, how many times can you get exactly what you want, when you want it? Not very often. So, why not have it with entertainment? That's what it's fun. It's fun! I find that's how I'm watching, more and more. My kids go on binges, and I get sucked in. And then, it's the middle of the night and they're late for school, the next day. — Jenji Kohan

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. — Louis XI Of France

(connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate); — George Eliot

All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But to translate it is to dissimulate it. — Antonin Artaud

There are as many preferences as there are men. — Horace