Dupes Quotes

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.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

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.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

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

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.

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

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.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles,
in which the disputants wound each other to the quick;
but a quarrel without animus is,
on the contrary,
apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

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.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.