Chess Quote by William Golding

“[...] under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world. Far from being its master as he pretended…

— Henry James

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not…

— Anthony Burgess

Botvinnik was a killer in chess.

— Yuri Averbakh

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at…

— Charles Dickens

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were…

— Joseph Heller

He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns…

— Terry Pratchett

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

— Kurt Richter

“One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said…

— Margaret Atwood

Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

— David Carradine

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

— Barry Lyga

“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

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out…

— Mark Twain