Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved… — Diana Gabaldon
The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband… — Rachel Vincent
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think. — Tom Robbins
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical,… — Stefan Zweig
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is… — Frank Herbert
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead… — Daniel Handler
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?" "Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a mean game of… — Kevin Hearne
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in… — Raymond Chandler
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went… — Terry Pratchett
He was the captain of the chess club and an A-plus student.” – Nick “Why would anyone think he’s a demon?” – Tate “The world… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of… — Paolo Bacigalupi
When you play chess alone it's always your move. — Charles Simic
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to… — Susanna Kearsley
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi takes off his… — Melina Marchetta
Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you… — Melina Marchetta
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in… — Leo Tolstoy
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves… — Benjamin Franklin
I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if… — Patricia Briggs
She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it… — Rick Yancey
Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board… — Sophie Kinsella
Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you. — Katy Evans
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose
I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7. — Susan Polgar

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