{"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 joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["deception","firebugs","truth"],"id":572,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.","author":"C.J. Redwine","tags":["deception","logan-mcentire","rachel"],"id":2341,"author_id":"C.J.+Redwine"},{"text":"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.","author":"Marcus Aurelius","tags":["deception","friendship","relationships"],"id":2849,"author_id":"Marcus+Aurelius"},{"text":"It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","deception","false-teachers","hypocrisy"],"id":4688,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["deception","delusion","fantasy","personal","reality","reveal","self-deception","take-for-granted","thinking","truth"],"id":6337,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.","author":"Suzanne Finnamore","tags":["breaking-up","cheating","deception","divorce","infidelity","marriage","relationships"],"id":6609,"author_id":"Suzanne+Finnamore"},{"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":"Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, I believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["aloof","alter-ego","appearance","beauty","deception","distrust","doubt","face","faces","fake-people","false-people","fawning","first-impression","flattering","flattery","good-looks","looks","nice","sinister","sugar-coating-words","sweet-talking","temporary","unbelieve"],"id":7100,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitable present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.","author":"Caroline Kettlewell","tags":["deception","lies"],"id":7716,"author_id":"Caroline+Kettlewell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":521,"pages":53,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}