Top 30 Whist Quotes
#1. Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
George Eliot
#2. The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
John Milton
#3. The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe
#4. Whist players, and in a few moments after seated with the
Jane Austen
#5. I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.
Thomas De Quincey
#6. Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.
Dominic Smith
#7. You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
Charles Lamb
#9. Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#10. O the wind is a faun in the spring time
When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
List! hark his lay!
Whist! mark his play!
T-r-r-r-l!
Hear how gay!
Clinton Scollard
#11. 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
#12. Cards! Me sit down to whist with you! Is it consistent? Who is responsible for it? Who has shattered my energies and turned them to whist? Ah, perish, Russia!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I
William Shakespeare
#14. I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.
Emmitt Smith
#15. I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.
Nelson Mandela
#16. A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on Talleyrand's urging, declared Napoleon deposed.
J. Christopher Herold
#17. There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess
Mortimer Collins
#18. The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
J. Arthur Thomson
#19. A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." - Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L
MariJo Moore
#20. If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.
Cary Fukunaga
#22. See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.
A.D. Posey
#23. I want to be sure ... that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood? ... Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing? ... Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.
Richard M. Nixon
#24. Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest!
Megan McCafferty
#25. I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.
Youth Lagoon
#27. I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
Brendan Fraser
#28. I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.
Hayley Williams
#29. None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
Guy Debord
#30. You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'
Oliviero Toscani
