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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. -- William Beveridge
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. -- Edmund Burke
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. -- Honore de Balzac
War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game. -- Thomas Paine
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. -- Demosthenes
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. -- Elbridge Gerry
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
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
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
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
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
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
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. -- John Calvin
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
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
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
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
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
I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
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
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes. -- Thomas Jefferson
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. -- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. -- Sophie Swetchine
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. -- Thomas Carlyle
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. -- Mason Cooley
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. -- Seth Klarman
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
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
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
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
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

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