Losing Trick Count

Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:

    “Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
    Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
    Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
    Remembered tolling a departing friend.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.”
    —Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)

    “Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.”
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)