A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

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

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Jean de la Bruyere
French - Philosopher
1645 - 1696

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

Bill Vaughan

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

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

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

John Sterling

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

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

William Rounseville Alger

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Lord Chesterfield

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

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

Jane Addams

The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.