Dupes Quotes

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a great hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

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 conquerors.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

… a dupe and fellow traveler

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.