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 (15641616)
“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“The days have outnumbered
my fingers and toes.
What can I count with now?
Saying this,
the naive girl cries.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)