Dupes In A Way Quotes

#1. War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Thomas Paine

#2. The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

#3. Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

John T. Flynn

#4. How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Honore De Balzac

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

Edmund Burke

#6. 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

#7. Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

William Beveridge

#8. Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.

Frederic Bastiat

#10. Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Sophie Swetchine

#11. We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Honore De Balzac

#13. We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Diane De Poitiers

#14. Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Mason Cooley

#17. Every man is his own greatest dupe.

William Rounseville Alger

#18. 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

#19. Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Honore De Balzac

#20. 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.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Honore De Balzac

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#24. 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 ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#25. 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

#26. A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift

#27. The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

Bill Vaughan

#28. But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing world, even though our judgments condemn our compliance! However, since the die is cast, we must endeavor to make the best of it.

Fanny Burney

#29. Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

Seth Klarman

#30. Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

Thomas Jefferson