Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Ely Culbertson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Ely Culbertson.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Elie Almon Culbertson, known as Ely Culbertson, was an American contract bridge entrepreneur and personality dominant during the 1930s. He played a major role in the popularization of the new game and was widely regarded as "the man who made contract bridge". He was a great showman who became rich, was highly extravagant, and lost and gained fortunes several times over.

American - Writer | June 22, 1891 - December 27, 1955

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God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

Ely Culbertson

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Ely Culbertson

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Ely Culbertson

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Ely Culbertson

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Ely Culbertson

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

Ely Culbertson

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

Ely Culbertson

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Ely Culbertson