Frank Underwood Quotes

#1. People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

Kevin Spacey

#2. I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.

Paul Ryan

#3. If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table.

Frank Underwood

#4. I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

Florence Welch

#5. How come she couldn't have a nice supernatural life like the girls on Charmed or even Buffy? They all had friends. Even on Supernatural, the boys had each other. What did she have? Nothing, but one damed traitor after another.

Caroline Hanson

#6. You can't turn a 'no' into a 'yes' without a 'maybe' in between.

Frank Underwood

#7. Do not mistake the history you have shared for the slightest understanding of what our marriage is, or how insignificant you are in comparison.

Frank Underwood

#8. I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.

Frank Underwood

#9. It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Elbert Hubbard

#10. Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

Helen Oyeyemi

#11. The first drops of blood have been spilt. The bullet has grazed my cheek but I haven't fallen.

Frank Underwood

#12. Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.

Tony Robbins

#13. Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.

Frank Underwood

#14. If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

Jerzy Grotowski

#15. You'll never progress if you never try

Joe Budden

#16. What is the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs through the battle.

Frank Underwood

#17. I'm a copper," he said. "Just a plain ordinary copper. Reasonably honest. As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

Raymond Chandler

#18. I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin

#19. violence is committed by people who look and act like people,

Gavin De Becker

#20. The best achievement of a man is that he converts his ideas into action.

Frank Underwood

#21. - I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed.
-The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.

Frank Underwood

#22. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins