House of Cards Quotes

There are two kinds of pain: the sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.

What’s better than a blank slate in the right hands?

What is the face of a coward? The back of his head as he runs from the battle.

It’s so refreshing to work with someone who will throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth.

Imagination is its own form of courage.

I’m done trying to win over people’s hearts.

You’re a fool, Donald. You always were. You and your dumb, dead wife that you never, ever shut up about. Principled? Idealistic? A champion for the people? What did you ever actually do? Nothing. The great crusader? I don’t think so. You just liked the position of the bumbling idiot that you are. The optimist. The idealist. You loved it so much that you couldn’t even make a deal or move a single thing forward. You have a legacy of nothing.

There’s nothing like a death in the family to separate the wheat from the bull****.

Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock in your left.

If you don’t like how the table is set, turn over the table.

For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted.

Behind every great man is a woman with blood on her hands.