Famous quotes containing the words tricks, bid and/or scores:
“Which I wish to remark—
And my language is plain—
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
Which the same I would rise to explain.”
—Bret Harte (1836–1902)
“Now bid me run,
And I will strive with things impossible,
Yea, get the better of them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy—but he who has shown the better temper.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)