Top 44 Dupe's Quotes
#1. 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.
Honore De Balzac
#2. We half-eat cookies and drink the milk, we leave notes, all so kids will believe in something that isn't true. Kids try their best to scientifically determine whether Santa's real and our whole culture feeds them false evidence. We dupe them.
Thomm Quackenbush
#3. The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.
J. Ross Clara
#4. 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
#5. Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.
John Bradshaw
#6. Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#7. The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Dawn Powell
#9. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#10. The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
Honore De Balzac
#11. 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
#12. It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...
Jane Addams
#13. She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I don't want to know, I only want to love her.
Anais Nin
#14. Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
Honore De Balzac
#15. PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method ... of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false ... for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."
Ambrose Bierce
#16. If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.
Janet Beizer
#17. Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!
Hafez
#19. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Giacomo Casanova
#20. A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
#21. In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
Lord Chesterfield
#23. The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.
Israel Shamir
#24. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Giacomo Casanova
#25. advanced socialbot software, a program to create and operate fake profiles that looked and acted like real people on Circles. Socialbots were designed to befriend real Circles users and dupe them into divulging their sensitive personal and financial information.
Scott Allan Morrison
#26. It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd, success wears almost the features of true mastery, and the greatest dupe of this counterfeit talent is History.
Victor Hugo
#27. Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.
Melinda Salisbury
#28. The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Bill Vaughan
#29. I know an excuse when I hear one, Sofia. Don't you dare dupe yourself into believing that you're the victim.
Bella Forrest
#30. Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
Wesley Morris
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#34. 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
#35. 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 die as usual.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#37. Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.
Jane Austen
#38. If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,
a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
Charles Caleb Colton
#39. Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
Kate Chopin
#40. The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.
John Fowles
#41. He also made all Muslims publicly forswear that part of their Holy Quran which permits them to dupe, cheat and kill all who are not of Islam.
Gary Jennings
#42. 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
#43. A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
Honore De Balzac
#44. 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 the dim night of this immortal day.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
