Draughts Game Quotes

#1. When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, "What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one's future happiness lies in the answer.

Marcel Proust

#2. The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.

John Banville

#3. Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

Edward Weston

#4. Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.

Colette

#5. The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Laurence Sterne

#6. David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!

Charles Dickens

#7. In this world there is one thing that is
more dangerous and scary than a tiger ...
and that is poverty and hunger.

Raj Kapoor

#8. The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.

Heraclitus