Uncalled Winning Hand

Famous quotes containing the words winning and/or hand:

    Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions.
    Joan Didion (b. 1934)

    Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)