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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. -- Demosthenes
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
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
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
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. -- William Hazlitt
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
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
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
Every man is his own greatest dupe. -- William Rounseville Alger
Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate! -- Hafez
One dupe is as impossible as one twin. -- John Sterling
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. -- Honore de Balzac
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate! -- Hafez
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. -- Bill Vaughan
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart. -- Lord Chesterfield
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ... -- Jane Addams
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. -- Honore de Balzac
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
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. -- Honore de Balzac
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. -- Larken Rose
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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