Card Quote by Finley Peter Dunne

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

— Charles Lamb

“War is absolutely the last card any national leader should play, and only when every other alternative has been exhausted. If the hand was…

— Harold G. Moore

“Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card.…

— Cormac McCarthy

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

— Jonathan Swift

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“In any war, an apt metaphor is that sometimes hands are forced to be played before all the cards have been dealt.”

— Matthew Rozell

Attack on playing cards

— Anonymous

“War is a primarily a game of skill. It is a Contest of mind matched against mind, tactics matched against tactics. But there is…

— Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself

— Francis Meehan

We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago…

— Spike Milligan

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

— Virginia Woolf