Chess Quote by Collette Cameron

“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified…

— Walter Tevis

“With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has just deposed…

— Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller…

— Emanuel Lasker

“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

“Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure she had a pen in…

— Stacia Kane

“The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her…

— Virginia Woolf

“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“He poisoned her with affection and compassion, and he taught her what it meant to play again. He gave her hope and tore down…

— Thea Harrison

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

— William Hartston

“Alienor glanced across at the girls who were still oblivious of their fate as they sat over their game of chess. They had been…

— Elizabeth Chadwick