Quotes by Dupes 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 dupes victim ambition 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 dupes sarcastic tools We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres scoundrels dupes ends 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 dupes usual secret The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. Bill Vaughan dupes deceit way 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. Clarence Day dupes creating knowledge 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. Confucius dupes life-is men 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 dupes ingredients age 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 dupes unsaid advice The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. Edmund Burke dupes knaves invention 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. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton dupes greatness men Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes. Francois de La Rochefoucauld dupes men long Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. Honore de Balzac dupes emotion victim 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 dupes flattery love-is A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. Honore de Balzac dupes vanity men It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep. Jane Addams dupes purpose promise The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi dupes distrust 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 dupes deceit thinking One dupe is as impossible as one twin. John Sterling dupes duplicity impossible When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. Ralph Waldo Emerson dupes hero world 12»
