Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards Quotes

“Mrs. Piozzi, speaking of cards, in her Retrospection, published in 1801, says, "It is a well-known vulgarity in England to say, 'Come, Sir, will you have a stroke at the history of the Four Kings?' meaning, Will you play a game at cards?" A writer in Fraser's Magazine, for August, 1844, also calls cards the books of the Four Kings, as if they were well known by that name.”
― William Andrew Chatto, Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

“in the words of an Irish guide, when pointing out to a traveller several places which he was not wanting to find,—"Well, then, none of them's it.”
― William Andrew Chatto, Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards