Card Game Quotes

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them.

Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.

Hell, this isn’t a pinochle party we’re having. It’s war.

We drew to a pair of deuces and filled.

Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.

I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.

Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.

I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.