Paulo Coelho Quotes

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

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.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

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

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

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 don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

Politicians have to be themselves because if they are not, in the end, the people will see through it.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

I would never lie about another professional.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

My thought process is I have been lied to so much by people who I thought I could trust that it motivates me to want to be as honest as possible, to project that energy, because that is how I want people to treat me.