Playing Cards Quotes

It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards.

Soon there will only be five kings left, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and the King of England.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

I am terrible at cards.

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.

My dad was a big card player.

If any free black or mulatto person, or slave, shall be found playing cards, dice, or other game, of an immoral tendency, whether for money or other thing, or not, or shall be present as one of the company where such game is playing, such free black or mulatto person, on the fact being made appear to a justice of the peace as aforesaid, shall pay a fine

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

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

We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

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.

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I'll just show you this one." He showed me three.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker' as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

Life deals your hand and you play it.

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.