Denis Leary Quotes

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

Whenever they tell you there's no change in policy, that's the surest sign that something's up.

This is politics. In politics, you only show the cake but not the ingredients. The time will come when I show you the cake and the ingredients.

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

I resent any secret plan that I'm not a part of.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

It is of great consequences to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.

If he is reelected, I can keep him in ignorance of my affairs.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

Always know I have something up my sleeve.

Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.