H. G. Wells Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, Artist, Men

• There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Chess, Curse

• There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

  H. G. Wells

  Chess, Remorse

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

• The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, World, Playing Chess

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

• Chess is a curse upon a man.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Chess, Curse

• The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

  H. G. Wells

  Sweet, Victory, Shadow

  "Certain Personal Matters".

• You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Artist, Wish, Bombs

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

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