"Times were very hard if you were a……" — Linda Grant
"Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser."
More Blitz Quotes
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess… — Alexander Alekhine
- In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop — Vlastimil Hort
- I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can… — Jane Curtin
- You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times,… — Ian Hislop
- Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik
- No Blitz, that's oversimplifying it! — Herman Cain
- Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to… — Anatoly Karpov
- He who analyses blitz is stupid. — Unknown Author
- It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I… — Viswanathan Anand
- Blitz chess kills your ideas. — Bobby Fischer
- Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By… — Simon Heffer