Chess Quotations | Page 5

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!...

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.