Top 100 Play Cards Quotes
#1. She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.
Louise Fletcher
#2. My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.
Alison Moyet
#3. Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;
and yet too much for twenty years.
Erich Maria Remarque
#4. Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn't play cards with.
H.G.Wells
#5. Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.
Charles Dickens
#7. I just miss him, that's all." I feel tears welling again. "I hate that we don't play cards anymore. I hate waking up alone.
Miranda Kenneally
#8. On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.
Emilio Rivera
#9. Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards
George Carlin
#10. That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
Joe Mantegna
#11. Do you play cards?"
Her lips tingled from the light kiss, "In theory. Why? Do you have a hankering for Old Maid?" She teased, flashing him a smile.
He placed his glass down and reached for an intricate metal crafted box. "Not even close. How about a little strip poker?
Beth Mikell
#12. It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck.
Paulo Coelho
#13. Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
Mario Lemieux
#14. Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.
John O'Hara
#15. I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.
Jean Giraudoux
#16. I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Jack Ma
#17. Sure I care about it, just not enough to play cards with my integrity as a poker chip.
Michael D. O'Brien
#18. Three things my daddy tried to learn me. 'Son', he always said, 'remember these three precepts and you can't go wrong. One, never eat at a place called Mom's. Two, never play cards with a man named Doc.'
'That's only two.'
'I can never recollect the third, and that's what worries me.
Edward Abbey
#19. I killed a couple of people," Scooter said. "Wanna play cards?
Forrest Carr
#20. Then there were the general moral duties: not to commit adultery or fornication, not to stay out late at night after 8 p.m. frequenting inns and brothels, and not to play cards except during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Jasper Ridley
#22. The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.
Richard Kadrey
#23. If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Ron Livingston
#24. I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.
Frank Langella
#25. Sonny was a spiky ray of light to those lucky enough to be close to him, but life had taught him to play his cards close to his chest.
Garrett Leigh
#26. I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
Pierre Beaumarchais
#28. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.
Andy Kaufman
#29. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#30. Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way.
Marty Rubin
#31. DNA is not the heart's destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play.
Thomas Lewis
#32. Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it.
Herman Melville
#33. It all boils down to the same thing: are you going to play the cards you got, or are you going to fold?
Lauren Oliver
#34. God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Jeannette Walls
#35. The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.
Shelly Crane
#36. Yeah, it's true we're all dealt a set of cards. But it's also true that it's up to us to figure out how to play the hand.
Francis S. Collins
#37. But that's life right? It's just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It's all in the draw and how you play it.
Mackenzie Herbert
#38. Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown
#39. Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
Eugene Fitch Ware
#40. I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.
Amarillo Slim
#41. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
Crystal Bowersox
#43. We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Doc Searls
#44. If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.
David Levithan
#45. It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.
Karen Marie Moning
#46. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
#47. Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog ... "
"You play with the cards you're dealt ... Whatever that means.
Charles M. Schulz
#48. No," Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash's shirt. "I don't want this. Didn't want this to happen."
Screams resonated.
Bash continued quietly, "None of us do. That's not up to us. We have to decide what we're going to do with what we're given. Play the cards dealt to us.
Cate Campbell Beatty
#49. Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Essentially, he taught that it doesn't make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life. The only choice we have is our attitude about the cards we hold and the finesse with which we play our hand.
Sylvia Boorstein
#51. I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
Samuel Johnson
#52. This is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. the playing of the game is the foregetting of self and play it bravely to the end
Clarence Darrow
#53. This is all made worse by the fact that I'm competitive. Not normal-people competitive. Not friendly competitive. Scary-psychotic competitive. Never hand me a volleyball. Don't ask me to play a fun hand of cards. I have never heard of a casual round of Scrabble.
Shonda Rhimes
#55. Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.
Philippa Gregory
#56. It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.
Regina Brett
#57. It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.
Lawrence Fagg
#58. And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth.
Alysha Speer
#59. There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
Merle Shain
#60. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Ray Dalio
#61. If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
Mark Twain
#62. Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
Helen Rowland
#63. The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.
Helen Oyeyemi
#64. It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#65. I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one.
Sandra Gulland
#66. You just implied you're banging me tonight." His grin gets bigger as his hands snake around my waist.
"Play your cards right."
"I forgot my cards ... But I did bring my penis.
Christina Lauren
#67. You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
Charles Lamb
#68. The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
Jim Morrison
#69. In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H.G.Wells
#70. After the play, he counts on playing cards,
and he on a wild night in some girl's arms -
why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools
so sorely try the Muses' kindness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.
Nora Roberts
#72. As she took Liam, she whispered to Dragos, "You win all the good Daddy points."
His eyes glinted with wicked sensuality, and his eyelids lowered to conceal it. Ever the opportunist, he murmured, "And what will that get me?"
"If you play your cards right, it might get you lucky later.
Thea Harrison
#73. The Sharks board agree red cards and dirty play cannot be condoned, and it is unacceptable that this behaviour be associated with the Sharks brand.
Stephen Saad
#74. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt
#75. When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.
Henry Cavill
#76. You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
Diane Chamberlain
#77. You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.
Neil Gaiman
#78. There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.
Cheryl Strayed
#79. Next time I'm here, I won't be alone. If I play my cards right, I might never be alone again.
Ella James
#80. We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand
Randy Pausch
#81. A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.
Miller Huggins
#82. World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
Chris Moneymaker
#83. You learn a lot about a person by the way he plays cards.
Then it was a good thing no one had seen her play.
Karen Hawkins
#84. we play the cards we've been dealt - as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says - based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.
Susan Meissner
#85. It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#86. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
Cheryl Strayed
#87. My dream is every day. When I wake up, I want to find something new. Something beautiful about each day I'm given. I want to take the cards I'm given and play them with a smile, not to win, just to play.
Marilyn Grey
#88. You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
Frank Sinatra
#89. But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.
Timothy Zahn
#90. That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." In
Randy Pausch
#91. Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.
Tom Everett Scott
#92. I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so I started doing that with my writing. I would describe fragments of scenes on index cards, then move the card around to see how it changed the piece.
Philip Kan Gotanda
#93. If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.
Terence McKenna
#94. I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
Francis Ford Coppola
#95. I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
Jim Lovell
#96. We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
#97. Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.
You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.
Manoj Arora
#98. What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
Malcolm Turnbull
#99. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
David Foster Wallace
#100. I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
Jon Anderson
