58 Of The Best Card Game Quotes (Inspiring, Funny, Thoughtful)

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!

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