Top 100 Pawn Quotes
#1. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
Ezra Pound
#2. I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.
Mikhail Tal
#3. The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.
Howard Staunton
#4. Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.
Sandeep Sharma
#5. I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#6. Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer."
"Any but you, apparently."
-Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence
Chameleon
#7. The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
Richard Reti
#8. Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
Bob Dylan
#9. We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
Aasif Mandvi
#10. It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.
Efim Geller
#11. We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.
Gene Wolfe
#13. It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
#14. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
Bobby Fischer
#15. You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
Mark Lawrence
#16. Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.
Gorilla Zoe
#17. In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.
David Bronstein
#18. But a pawn could become a queen if she reached the end and came back again.
Kim Harrison
#19. A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#20. Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king.
Mark Lawrence
#21. It's a great huge game of chess that's being played
all over the world
if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join
though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
Lewis Carroll
#23. Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.
Elizabeth Kostova
#24. Our people" have functioned in this country for nearly a century as political weapons, the trump card up the enemies' sleeve; anything promised Negroes at election time is also a threat leveled at the opposition; in the struggle for mastery the Negro is the pawn.
James Baldwin
#25. You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.
White Eagle
#26. Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on
Anne Rice
#28. I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.
Leonard Cohen
#29. She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen.
Aspen Matis
#30. The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure
Michael Stean
#32. Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. Cummings
#34. If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.
Neil McDonald
#35. Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
Steven Wright
#36. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!
Thomm Quackenbush
#37. She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else's happiness - no - their very existence.
Collette Cameron
#38. When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.
Srikumar Rao
#39. Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
Adrian Rogers
#40. The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton
#41. The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#42. No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Edmund Burke
#43. Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.
Junior Seau
#44. He had learned well: made a board of the village, a pawn of the master.
Anthony Marra
#45. It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
James F. Byrnes
#46. Make no mistake, my girl," he finally breathes. "You are playing the game as someone's pawn.
Victoria Aveyard
#47. The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
#48. Being a part of the Mafia was like being in a chess game where you had no idea if you were the queen or a pawn, until it was too late, until you lost the entire game or until you won.
Rachel Van Dyken
#49. When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Howard Staunton
#50. To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#51. A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Arthur Dean
#52. He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
Yana Toboso
#53. Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game.
Ellen Renner
#54. I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.
Hugo Chavez
#55. What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn.
James Robison
#56. You are a pawn and a tool," he said. "But you're the right one for the job. For that, I am sorry.
Jamie Wyman
#57. When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side
Garry Kasparov
#58. You are either a pawn or a player. I am no one's tool. I am no one's pawn. I am a player. In the world of kill or be killed I'm a murderess. I will ripe out your throat with my bare hands and lick the blood from my fingers.-Lilith
Ashley Jeffery
#60. I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America.
Donald Miller
#61. By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!
Emanuel Lasker
#62. A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!
Bent Larsen
#63. No matter how I feel about his beliefs,he's the one truly losing here. I knew the risks,but he was just a pawn,torn between so many playing an invisible game.
Victoria Aveyard
#64. It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?
David Bronstein
#65. And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.
Neal Shusterman
#66. That's how I stay on top baby. i look at life from every position. I play from every side. you gotta know what each man on the board is thinking down to the littlest mutherfucker like the pawn
Sister Souljah
#67. I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
Bobby Fischer
#69. Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn
William Shakespeare
#70. All ye that pass by!
While we least think it he prepares his Mate.
Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases,
Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.
John Masefield
#71. On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Bob Dylan
#72. A pawn only needs to move five spaces to become the queen" - from Bhendi Bazaar
Vish Dhamija
#73. And now the game is over, and a single pawn stands on that scorched board and its face is human after all.
Peter Watts
#74. I may be a pawn," I said as I locked my shaking knees. "But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off.
Kim Harrison
#75. Always put the rook behind the pawn ... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#76. I'm screwed," Eric repeats, and shakes his head. "I have to go. Take care of her, okay?"
He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. "I always do," I say.
Jodi Picoult
#77. When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.
Thomm Quackenbush
#78. Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game.
Marty Rubin
#79. It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#80. What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.
Samuel Reshevsky
#81. In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan
#82. This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.
Jan Hein Donner
#83. My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.
George Benson
#84. I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
Randy Harrison
#85. I won't be your pawn," I growled.
Puck's lips formed a thin, knowing grin. "In the end, you'll still serve the Fae.
Jamie Wyman
#86. The rules state the pawn is the weakest piece. But if the pawn makes it to the other side, it gets promoted. The pawn can become queen. And then it's not weak at all.
K. Webster
#87. I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.
Jennifer Lawrence
#89. She was meant to be his destruction ... A pawn played in a perilous game between father and son ... Yet, her strength was more than either man could imagine.As Maddy learns to save herself ... She becomes the one thing that could set the son free
M.S. Willis
#91. I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.
Lady Gaga
#92. In this world, you're either playing the game or you're a pawn on the board.
Courtney Milan
#93. Thats right my lovely bride to be. In language you might understand, your pawn has been captured and you my queen will also be in danger if you think to gain-way me again.
Kat Martin
#94. Words should be the pledges of work, and, like pawn-tickets, have their market price.
Baltasar Gracian
#95. The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
Rebecca Solnit
#96. The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Andrew Eldritch
#97. Foreword of my book: The Pawn
"It is being said that time and space could be tied to their creator's stance of what they are to him or her. It can possibly be perceived by those who become the receivers of this viewpoint as something different or the same." (Claire Manning Writer/Author 2016)
Claire Hamelin Manning
#98. If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
Megan Whalen Turner
#99. Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
Nigel Short
#100. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.
Jose Raul Capablanca
