Dupe Quote by Honore de Balzac

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A…

— African Spir

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

— Nelson Rodrigues

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

— Mitchell Zuckoff

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

— Honore de Balzac

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his…

— Honore de Balzac

Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has…

— Hans Arp

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

— Ellen Glasgow

For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the way through…

— Sorin Cerin

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds…

— John Keats

For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the way through…

— Sorin Cerin