Dupe Quotes

26 Dupe quotes by 20 unique 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
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for… — William Hazlitt
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through… — Dawn Powell
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
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made by… — Ambrose Bierce

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