Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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.
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
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.
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
Every man is his own greatest dupe.
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
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.
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
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.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
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.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
