Dupes Quotes

48 Dupes quotes by 41 unique authors

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
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the… — Nicolas Chamfort
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by… — George Bernard Shaw
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. — Charles Caleb Colton
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke
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
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled… — Jeffrey Kluger
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

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