Dupe Quotes

26 quotes by 20 authors

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… — Giacomo Casanova
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain… — Wesley Morris
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… — Diane de Poitiers
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe… — Giacomo Casanova
I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal remedy to my unwanted pregnancy.… — Norma McCorvey
I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality,… — Jerry Seinfeld
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence… — Ambrose Bierce
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. — Ambrose Bierce
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… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as… — Remy de Gourmont
We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all… — Jerry Seinfeld
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. — Alphonse de Lamartine
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? — Jean de la Bruyere
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. — Demosthenes
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. — William Hazlitt

Who Wrote These Dupe Quotes

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