Dupes famous quotes

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Sarcastic #Tools #Dupes

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Secret #Dupes #Usual

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Deceit #Way #Dupes

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
-- Clarence Day

#Knowledge #Creating #Dupes

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
-- Dawn Powell

#Age #Ingredients #Dupes

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Advice #Dupes #Unsaid

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Men #Long #Dupes

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
-- Giacomo Casanova

#Victory #Dupes #Steel

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Dupes #Emotion #Victim

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Men #Vanity #Dupes

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...
-- Jane Addams

#Promise #Purpose #Dupes

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
-- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

#Dupes #Distrust

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
-- John Sterling

#Duplicity #Dupes #Impossible

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
-- Kate Chopin

#Suffering #Wake Up #Dupes

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
-- Sophie Swetchine

#Dupes #Suspicion #Wells

Every man is his own greatest dupe.
-- William Rounseville Alger

#Men #Dupes

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
-- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

#Dupes #Ends #Scoundrels