Chess Quotes

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We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the… — Nizar Qabbani
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? — Steven Wright
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. — Jorge Luis Borges
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your… — C.S. Lewis
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all… — Edgar Allan Poe
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually… — Amy Tan
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate… — George Orwell
I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's smile turned smug.… — Claudia Gray
What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already,… — N.D. Wilson
That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages… — Lloyd Alexander
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid… — Christopher Moore
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. — Jerry Spinelli
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." -… — Amy Tan
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds — Lisa Kleypas
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight… — Ezra Pound

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