Playing Cards

Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or cards:

“A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues off—or in her warm bed—or playing with a case-knife—or any thing you please—than make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“But cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)