Dennis Lehane Quotes

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

Plain lies are dangerous.

You know what lies are for.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.