Notable/Famous Quotes from The Gambler

“For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade?”

“We Russians often need money; wherefore, we are glad of, and greatly devoted to, a method of acquisition like roulette—whereby, in a couple of hours, one may grow rich without doing any work.”

“I repeat that I am your slave—and slaves cannot be shamed or offended.”

“I have need of you, and, moreover, you have promised to obey me… I ask you to be obedient. If necessary, I shall even bid you be obedient.”

“And this is the woman whom they had thought to see in her grave after making her will! Yet she will outlive us, and every one else in the hotel. Good Lord! what is going to become of us now?”

“I am not going to give you any of my money.”

“You are a bold young fellow, but mind you depart early tomorrow—as early as you can—for if you do not you will lose everything that you have won.”

“More than two thousand francs, however, I am not going to give you, for the reason that, if I did so, you would gamble them all away.”

“What am I? I am zero—nothing. What shall I be tomorrow? I may be risen from the dead, and have begun life anew.”

“Have you no other employment than gambling?”

“No; tomorrow all shall be ended!”