When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
Every man is his own greatest dupe.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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.
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
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.
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.
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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.
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be. . but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
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.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.