Stephen Potter

The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.

— Stephen Potter

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.

— Stephen Potter

How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

— Stephen Potter

"Yes, but not in the South", with slight adjustments, will do for any argument about any place, if not about any person.

— Stephen Potter

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

— Stephen Potter

Talk of the "imperial decay" of your invalid port. "Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession."

— Stephen Potter