Chess Quote by Sarah Beth Durst

“the village would never accept it. It has a policy of never accepting anything. As a happy consequence, it changes about as fast as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I…

— Peter Hessler

“When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn’t so she can win; it’s to move the game forward. She’s just keeping…

— Danielle Stewart

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”

— Barry Lyga

“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.”

— Julie Anne Long

“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”

— George Orwell

“...mention chess and most people's eyes glaze over. They think of two old geezers, one of whom has died but no one has noticed,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“When your main game’s over, you can always move your chessboard elsewhere.”

— Margaret Atwood

“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the chess players,…

— Don DeLillo

“She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some…

— Erin Morgenstern

“...why did you stick with me?” “That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always…

— J.M. Sullivan

“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