Losing Trick Count

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

    I won the battle the wrong way when our worthy Russian generals were losing it the right way.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    If thou must love me, let it be for nought
    Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
    “I love her for her smile—her look—her way
    Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
    That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
    A sense of pleasant ease on such a day”—
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work—the night watchman.
    Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)