Juliet Marillier Quotes

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

I never lie to my fans.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

People can smell a fake.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

I'm not a liar.

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.