Quote by Anton Chekhov Download Open image ““I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns.”” — Anton Chekhov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?” — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Because you are just a pawn. And a pawn can’t help but get played.” — Laura Thalassa Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?” — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game.” — Ellen Renner Copy Share Image
“Those bound by superficial rules who do not use their pawns to the utmost are fools.” — Ciel Phantomhive Copy Share Image
“Pawns were always underestimated - until they marched across the board and changed into queens.” — Natalie Herzer Copy Share Image
“How often do pawns win? They lose because they only move two ways. You’re marching to your death on a stubborn ideal.” — Eva Natsumi Copy Share Image
“The pawn that reaches the last rank, he told himself, becomes a queen.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“They were pawns, pitifully despicable and disposable, and yet they were strong and fearsome.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
