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)

    Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)