House Of Cards Quotes

“When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life and create energy for positive thinking, whereas remaining bogged down in dispiriting situations and staying clogged up with immaterial hassle may only spawn forlorn deadlocks.. ("Mes cliques et mes claques")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Let us people 'be' as they are, authentic, floundering on the flow of rippling moments, simmering in their juice. Why should we expect them to build up a house of cards crumbling down behind a curtain of appearances? Why keep bending backward every time, suffering unbearable torments and distressful heartbeats? Why inflame people to focus on cringy living standards with a hell's race of illusions? - Erik Pevernagie”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

“There is no escape for me now, I know. Everything is over. I had my run. I was a murderer, a beautiful one, but I lived in a house of cards all my life and now it's all coming back to punish me, and there is no escape.”
― Katherine Ewell, Dear Killer

“Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.”
― Michael Dobbs, To Play the King

“If we never did the things we shouldn't do, we'd never feel good about doing the things we should.”
― Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey)

“We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a delicate house of cards, held together by the most intricate balancing of all its carefully selected components, and that the slightest shock, the slightest jar to all our perfect orchestration, will bring the whole edifice crashing down.”
― Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

“Seduce him. Give him your heart. Cut it out and put it in his fucking hands.”
― Claire Underwood

“What's the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs from the battle”
― Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey)

“La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto. No importa qué pueda conseguir un hombre sacrificándose por su país, siempre se saca mayor provecho dejando que otros lo hagan primero.”
― Michael Dobbs, House of Cards

“Freddy believes if a fridge falls off a minivan, you better swerve out of the way; I believe that it is the fridge’s job to swerve out of mine.”
― Frank Underwood

“He also had another analogy of refuting God. One’s identity is supported like a house of cards. The layer upon layer of delicately balanced playing cards are like the structure of one’s previous prayers. They are the supports which God has granted and enabled. For every time one has lain prostrate on the floor, with one’s forehead on the ground, crying for God’s help, for one’s self, for one’s family and friends, in one’s darkest moments, pleading with the Lord, begging for mercy, and when the Lord hears, when the prayer is answered, the terror is averted and another layer of cards is constructed in delicate balance to create the next layer.
One’s foundations are built on these episodes, based on the mercy of the Lord. Woe be it if the foundations are removed.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“No es el respeto, sino el miedo lo que motiva a un hombre; así se construyen imperios y se ponen en marcha revoluciones. Ése es el secreto de los grandes hombres. Cuando un hombre tiene miedo de que lo aplastes, de que lo destruyas por completo, su respeto siempre vendrá detrás. El temor más elemental siempre es embriagador, abrumador, liberador. Siempre es más intenso que el respeto”
― Michael Dobbs, House of Cards

“When everyone was busy playing their cards, guessing others hands and counting chips, we took a deck and a bottle and a corner table. At the end of that dreamy night, rattles stopped, bottles emptied, everyone gone. But there on our table was this beautiful house erected of cards, stories, hopes and secrets. Something we built quite unknowingly. She looked at me with starry eyes and whispered – “Can we keep it?” The curious inn keeper, from a distance answered – “No”.

She made a face and looked at me and I said – “We shall come back tomorrow and make a new one everyday”.

And we never did.”
― Nahiar Ozar

“I said to my professor, "Why mourn the death of presidents, or anyone for that matter? The dead can't hear us." And he asked me if I believed in heaven. I said no. And then he asked if I had no faith in God. I said, "You have it wrong. It's God who has no faith in us.”
― Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey)

“We are trying to balance a house of cards on a windy day.”
― Dipti Dhakul