It’s no secret that I LOVE card games.
I mean, after all, this is a website dedicated to card and board games.
As such, I’m also always interested in what other people have to say about cards, and I’ve enjoyed collecting some of my favorite card game quotes over the years.
Here I’m sharing my top 58 with you. Enjoy and share if you see one you like too!
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58 Card Game Quotes To Share With Your Friends
The cards always look different when it’s your turn to play them: loaded with subtly different possibilities.
Alastair Reynolds
For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.
Amit Kalantri
A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.
Amit Kalantri
All the magicians have 52 mutual friends.
Amit Kalantri
We draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives.
Amor Towles
Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.
Anurag Shourie
If I’m playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
Carl Hubbell
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
Charles Fort
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Charles Lamb
You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding. And my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
Cheryl Strayed
Cards are like living, breathing beings, and should be treated as such.
Dai Vernon
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
Daniel Handler
When you’re playing cards you can’t constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can’t be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.
Daniel Negreanu
Rummy is deservedly popular because it is easy to learn, fast to play, suitable for all ages, playable by any number, and as suitable for gamblers as for missionaries – though perhaps not both at once.
David Parlett
Life is like a game of cards. Reliability is the ace, industry the king, politeness the queen, thrift the jack. And every day, as the game proceeds, you will find the ace, king, queen, jack in your hand, and an opportunity to use them.
Edgar Watson Howe
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you’d go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
Elayne Boosler
Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
Ernest Hemingway
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it’s no fun any more.
Fanny Brice
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne
Cards are a means of bridging differences in age and habits, drawing children and parents, old and new friends together in fair and friendly competition.
Florence Osborn
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards? Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
George C. Lichtenberg
One has a stronger hand when there’s more people playing your same cards.
George W. Bush
Fate is the cards you were given when you were born. Destiny is what you do with them.
Gina E. Jones
Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.
Henny Youngman
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.
James M. Buchanan
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
God deals us all different hands. How we play them is up to us.
Jeannette Walls
No one knows what is on the other side of a playing card.
Jose Hernandez
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
Joshua Foer
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
Joshua Foer
Playing cards is addictive. So are the playing cards themselves. My habit has me up to two packs a day.
Joshua Jay
The key to success is playing the hand you were dealt like it was the hand you wanted.
Kaitlyn Walsh
Men are like a deck of cards. You’ll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
Laura Swenson
Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown
A good lawyer, just like a good poker player, must always keep his cards close to his chest.
Mallika Nawal
Just when you think you’re playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.
Mark Sheppard
Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.
Mary Martin
They say poker is a zero-sum game. It must be, because every time I play my sum ends up zero.
Max Shapiro
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding.” It’s probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.”
Maya Angelou
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.
Peter van Inwagen
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
Phylicia Rashad
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
Playing cards have the ability to cloud men’s minds, or to dominate them.
Ricky Jay
Life is not a matter of holding good cards.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright
There’s no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself.
Stu Ungar
God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other player, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell you the rules and who smiles all the time.
Terry Pratchett
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there’s nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget’s Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.
Toni Morrison
Marriage is a lot like playing cards. In the beginning, all you need is two hearts and a diamond. By the end, you’ll wish you had a club and a spade.
Unknown
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
William Cowper
