{"quotes":[{"text":"Michelle, since the first day I met you I knew you were the one for me. I knew that I would make you my wife. I love waking up to your beautiful face every morning and seeing you before I close my eyes each night. I love you with everything in me, and I promise to be the man that you need for the rest of our lifetime together. Would you do me the honor of being my wife?","author":"Blaque Diamond","tags":["betrayal","books","contemporary","deceit","deception","happy","lies","love","marriage","novel","over-joy","proposal","reading","secrets"],"id":150,"author_id":"Blaque+Diamond"},{"text":"A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.","author":"Dennis Adonis","tags":["deceit","deceitful-people","lies","rumours","untruthful"],"id":2681,"author_id":"Dennis+Adonis"},{"text":"The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-life","cords","darkness","deceit","inspirational","sin"],"id":2717,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["betrayal","cordelia","deceit","king-lear","time","tragedy"],"id":5613,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.","author":"Bamigboye Olurotimi","tags":["deceit","deception","desperation","donald-trump","fake-promises","hillary-clinton","lies","life","politicians","politics","trouble","violence"],"id":6832,"author_id":"Bamigboye+Olurotimi"},{"text":"Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.","author":"R.M. Ford","tags":["accountability","confession","corruption","deceit","helpful","honor","integrity","justice","lies","pain","transparently","truth"],"id":12563,"author_id":"R.M.+Ford"},{"text":"A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who employ the term 'we' or 'us' without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, designed to suggest that 'we' are all agreed on 'our' interests and identity. Populist authoritarians try to slip it past you; so do some kinds of literary critics ('our sensibilities are enraged...') Always ask who this 'we' is; as often as not it's an attempt to smuggle tribalism through the customs. An absurd but sinister figure named Ron 'Maulana' Karenga—the man who gave us Ebonics and Kwanzaa and much folkloric nationalist piffle—once ran a political cult called 'US.' Its slogan—oddly catchy as well as illiterate—was 'Wherever US is, We are.' It turned out to be covertly financed by the FBI, though that's not the whole point of the story. Joseph Heller knew how the need to belong, and the need for security, can make people accept lethal and stupid conditions, and then act as if they had imposed them on themselves.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["deceit","language","politics","populism","surveillance"],"id":14054,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cheat","cheating","creature","creatures","deceit","deceitful-people","deceived","deceiver","deceivers","hideous","most","ugly","wise-words","world"],"id":19270,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["deceit","good-deeds","gossip","libel","lies","media","news","propaganda","sensationalism","slander","society","story","unsung"],"id":19723,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.","author":"Christopher Fowler","tags":["civilization","conversation","deceit","society"],"id":29963,"author_id":"Christopher+Fowler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":243,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}