Playing Cards

Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or cards:

    Lovely,
    this plowman’s son
    with the good-looking wife
    has gone so thin over you
    that the woman,
    though jealous,
    is playing the go-between herself!
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word “sophisticate” means, very simply, “obscene.” A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a “sophisticate” means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.
    Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)