Classical World Chess

Famous quotes containing the words classical, world and/or chess:

“Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)