Dupes Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dupes Men Swindlers Vanity
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
