Duped Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money…
— P T Barnum
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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing…
— Washington Irving
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I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism…
— Howard Stern
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The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It…
— Fisher Ames
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An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is…
— Manohla Dargis
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As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less…
— Ezra Cornell
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Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand…
— Stephen Beaumont
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface…
— Stephen Sondheim
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A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
— Criss Jami
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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
— Henry Miller
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But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that…
— David Levithan
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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
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We are easily duped by those we love.
— Moliere
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Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good…
— Mark Pagel
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells,…
— Luke Harding
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Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the…
— Mark Skousen
Who Wrote These Duped Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Duped Quotes as follows: