Losing Trick Count

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

    Loves riddles are, that though thy heart depart,
    It stayes at home, and thou with losing savest it:
    But wee will have a way more liberall,
    Then changing hearts, to joyne them, so wee shall
    Be one, and one anothers All.
    John Donne (1572–1631)

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

    If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)