Playing card

Playing cards are pieces of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, or thin plastic, figured with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling.

Quotes

 * Paciencia y barajar.
 * Patience and shuffle the cards.
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615), Volume II, 23.


 * It is explained in this essay that the whole of the Tarot is based upon the Tree of Life, and that the Tree of Life is always cognate with Tetragrammaton.
 * Aleister Crowley The Book of Thoth


 * With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
 * William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, line 217.


 * He's a sure card.
 * John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act II, scene 2.


 * The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
 * Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 231.


 * You tell me of the French playing at whist; why, I found it established when I was last here. I told them they were very good to imitate us in anything, but that they had adopted the two dullest things we have, Whist and Richardson's Novels.
 * Horace Walpole, in a letter from Paris, September 27, 1767, to Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, as quoted in

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 89-90.


 * Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
 * David Garrick, epilogue to Edward Moore's Gamester.


 * A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
 * Charles Lamb, Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist.


 * Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Hélas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous préparez!
 * You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
 * Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.