Cards Quotes

“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.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The moment the mirror does not recognize us anymore, the cards are no longer in our hands. In effect, we have failed to see to the bottom line of our life story and lost our identity. (“The empty Mirror")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Where did you meet?” he pressed on.
I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.”
“From who?”
I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.
Knox leaned forward. “I think we’re both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?”
“With my grandma, every Sunday after church.”
― Dannika Dark, Sterling

“Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“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, Kill the Dead

“A good lawyer, just like a good poker player, must always keep his cards close to his chest.”
― Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE

“Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card.”
― Stephan Pastis

“I don't know. I guess the cards we draw are those we get. You wouldn't like to re-deal would you, dealer?

No. They only deal to you once and then you pick them up and play them. I can play them, if I draw any damn thing at all...”
― Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

“The negotiators sat at the table, opened the cards, and threw some dice.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bezique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles.”
― Lisa St. Aubin de Teran, Keepers of the House

“I'm not a card!" Alice cried, both to him and the skeleton.
The skeleton made a mocking little half bow. "Yet you look like you are trying to become a queen; you play in the Queens' Games.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Whenever Solomon played cards, he felt strong and smooth, like he couldn't lose; he wondered if he felt this way because he didn't care about the money.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“You are responsible for what happened to you, but you are not to blame for it. You are trying to do the best you could with the hand you were dealt. You didn’t pick the cards.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“For all its modern glamour and for everything else that the Tarot has become, it had a fairly humble origin; it began as a simple pack of playing cards. No matter what use the Tarot is put to today, from psychological insight to divination to collectible folk art, it began and remains a card game. Trying to understand the Tarot without knowledge of this fact would be like trying to perform surgery without any knowledge of anatomy. In both cases, we end up with a mangled product.”
― Ben Hoshour, Origins of the Minor Arcana: A Guidebook to the Ancestral Influences That Shaped the Tarot's Minor Arcana

“Flower’s evidentiary gymnastics beautifully illustrate the primary point I wish to make, which is that almost all of the Tarot’s acquired meaning has been derived from a foundation that has been shown to be lacking in both substance and truth. Furthermore, this pseudo-history has been promulgated ad infinitum from the late 18th century to the present day.”
― Ben Hoshour, Origins of the Minor Arcana: A Guidebook to the Ancestral Influences That Shaped the Tarot's Minor Arcana

“Although Etteilla receives little credit in popular literature today, he can credited with many ‘firsts’': he was certainly the first to popularise fortune-telling with playing cards , the first to promote card reading as a professional activity and the first to publish books on the subject. He also was the first to use a pseudonym as a constant pen-name, initiating a tradition which was to flourish among XIX-oentury esoteric writers, as the following chapters will abundantly demonstrate. Thanks to Etteilla, Court de Gébelin's theory about the 'Egyptian' origin of the Tarot had a wider diffusion and fortune-telling with Tarot cards became popular. He was the first. too, to attempt to incorporate Tarot cards into a system of magical theory: his example, though not his means of doing so, was to be followed by others whose infuence has persisted longer.
Last but not least, he can be credited too with the invention of the very word cartomancie, or rather of its forerunner, ‘cartonomancie', which appeared in his writings from 1782. Amazingly, one of his disciples was about to publish a book on 'cartomancie' in 1789 (the first occurrence of such a word in a European language), but as the book is now lost we only know it from Etteilla's very critical review, rejecting this quite new and ‘illogical’ word to which he opposed his ‘better’ cartonomancie. Nevertheless, cartomancie took hold and its use spread. In 1803, it entered de Wailly’s French dictionary, and from these it has found its way into alnost all European languages,
Jean-Baptiste Alliette died on 12 December 1791. He was only 53, which is, even in the XVIII century, a rather young age at which to die, We unfortunately know nothing of what he died of. Etteilla was a fascinating character and deserves more than giving his name to a strange Tarot pack. There is something touching in the man, who was sincere and passionate, generous and enlightened (in all the meanings of the word in the late XVIII century.”
― Ronald Decker, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot

“A game of cards insults all.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Don't think you're wasting time by things like playing solitaire--it's good therapy to give your brain a break now and then.”
― Anna Balcsik

“In the first half of the second millennium A.D., a revolutionary form of gambling swept across Asia and Europe. Allowing for infinitely more variation than dice games, capable of artistic embellishment and even educational lessons, playing cards would supplant dice as the favored gambling mechanism to most of the world.”
― David G. Schwartz, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling

“Everyone is equal before the flop.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Life may deal you some cards, but don't forget that you shuffled the deck.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I always obtain the business cards of all police officers I have interacted with.”
― Steven Magee

“In most police departments, you are entitled to ask for the business cards of all police officers you have interacted with.”
― Steven Magee

“I am playing the game of life with the stacked deck of cards I was dealt.”
― Steven Magee

“Achieving absolute certainty can become your superpower. Once achieved, there is nothing that can stop you from obtaining your goals. You would never experience doubt if you knew for certain that everything would work out in the end. Simply knowing that your brilliant ideas come directly from the Light of the Creator should give you all the certainty you need.”
― Grant Isaac, The Tarot Decoded: Raziel's Interpretation

“It is not really my son’s fault, after all what can he do. Gambling is an inherited disease, who is he to fight it. Generations before him have succumbed to the rush of excitement, the lure of teasing fate, the brief moment of uncertainty and the prospect of an easy win. It needs no skill, not much effort and certainly no talent - only a deep wallet and a strong heart.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“Kids having access to your credit cards is a dangerous thing!”
― Steven Magee

“Life dealt you a hand of cards. And once life dealt the cards it called the game, collected the remaining cards, left the room, and prayed that you would be wise enough to understand that it’s not about the hand you were dealt. Rather, it’s about how you play it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Wow. Just wow. I’m losing a game of cards to an advanced toddler. This is great.”
― Ardin Patterson, Feral