#chess

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #chess




If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.


Rex Stout


#books #chess #chore #come #detective

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.


Alexander Alekhine


#knowledge #logic #only

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.


Nicolas Chamfort


#governed #head #heart #kindness #little

We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?


Noah Boyd


#humor #humor

You ain’t know nothing,” a man scoffed. “How I’m supposed to trust some junkie Churchwitch-” The words sliced through her like razor-sharp fangs. Her face flooded with shame, so hot she imagined it steamed in the icy air. At least it wasn’t difficult to identify the speaker. All she had to do was look for the man with Terrible’s fist locked around his neck. “Ain’t think I hear you right,” Terrible said in a calm, quiet voice. “Wanna louden up?” The man shook his head His eyes bulged. He looked like a bug, with his hands clenching into tiny useless fists. “You sure? You got else to say, you best say it now, instead of later. Now we got us watchers. Later might not be true, dig?” The man dug.


Stacia Kane


#terrible #imagination

His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His teeth on her throat, biting hard, his lips soothing the spot. "So fucking much, so...so bad.


Stacia Kane


#downside-ghosts #terrible #love

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 from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.


Benjamin Franklin


#chess #life #change

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.


Emanuel Lasker


#chess-quotes #love

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.


William Hazlitt


#essays #great-men #greatness #men

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.


Alexander Alekhine


#believe #chess #demands #enough #i