Quotes About Draughts

Capricious river draughts, sucking up the damp defile, whipped upward into the blistering sunlight gray spiral towers that leaped into opal fires and dissolved in showers of diamond and pearl and amethyst.

The drink is drunk. The dice and draughts are set aside at the waning edge of a long night of testing conversations and ugly murmurs.

Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.

but rather a sort of joker, a floating signifier, a wild card, one who puts play into play." And this joker is the inventor of play, of games of draughts, dice

It is true that those same servants who cannot bear our tears will have no hesitation in letting us catch pneumonia, because the maid downstairs likes draughts and it would not be polite to her to shut the windows.