Famous quotes containing the words whist and/or game:
“[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didnt work. You werent expected to. I strongly suspect that my father would not have been particularly good at working anyway. He left our house in Torquay every morning and went to his club. He returned, in a cab, for lunch, and in the afternoon went back to the club, played whist all afternoon, and returned to the house in time to dress for dinner.”
—Agatha Christie (18911976)
“A mans idea in a card game is warcruel, devastating and pitiless. A ladys idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (18671936)