The Netflix series based on a novel, The Queen's Gambit follows a young girl named Beth Harmon, who finds herself orphaned at a young age. As she navigates the difficulties of growing up in the Cold War Era, a discovery of chess completely changes her life. Her natural ability at the game astounds everyone around her and catapults her life from ordinary to extraordinary. A life full of success, addiction, loss, friendship, and more is revealed in this touching coming-of-age story.
If you enjoy period drama shows that focus on a coming-of-age story, then this is the tv show for you!
Here's the scoop on the best quotes from Netflix's limited series The Queen's Gambit!
1. "Do you see it now or should we finish this on the board?” -Beth Harmon
2. “Though I am no longer a wife, except by a legal fiction, I believe I can learn to be a mother.” -Alma
3. “To tell you the truth of it child, you’re astounding.” -Mr. Shaibel
4. “You’re all a bunch of fucking cocksuckers!” -Jolene
5. “Anger is a potent spice. A pinch wakes you up, too much dulls your senses.” – Harry Beltik
6. “It takes a strong woman to stay by herself in a world where people will settle for anything, just to say they have something.” -Alice Harmon
7. “A sad story, involving me, a bad breakup, and a walk through le Jardin du Luxembourg, where those two stopped me from killing myself.” -Cleo
8. “I’m not Aristotle but yes, I think something could be construed as wrong.” -Alma
9. “They want us to beat Communists for Jesus.” -Benny
10. That’s what family does, it’s what we are.” -Jolene
11. “It’s your game, take it.” -Borgov
12. “You are a marvel, my dear.” – Marcus Loges
13. “But, um, what I really wanted was for us to be friends and yet you kind of broke my heart.” -Townes
14. “I analyze games. What actually happened, not what could have happened.” -Beth Harmon
15. “I’m raging inwardly.” -Benny
16. “The strongest person is the person who isn’t scared to be alone.” -Alice Harmon
17. “I don’t know why my body is so intent on sabotaging my brain when my brain is perfectly capable of sabotaging itself.” -Alma
18. “Jesus Christ, Harmon, you’re humiliating my rook.” – Townes
19. "Don’t you want to know how she died?” -Beth Harmon
20. “What’s the last thing they said to you before they died? -Jolene
21. “I know that, at this moment, all you’re feeling is loss but after grief brings you low, prayer and faith will lift you high.” – Miss. Deardorff
22. “We have a dozen members, and I was suggesting to Mrs. Deardorff that you come along and play all of them in a simultaneous.” – Mr. Ganz
23. “My tranquility needs to be refurbished.” -Alma
24. “I’m stoned. I shouldn’t be speaking a foreign language.” -Tim
25. “It’s chess, we’re all prima donnas.” – Harry Beltik
26. “Most people think about chess players they think about people who look like you.” -Benny
27. “Do you like to fuck?” -Cleo
28. “I would say that it’s much easier to play chess without the burden of an Adam’s apple.” -Beth Harmon
29. "Instead of the usual Black cleaning woman, they wanted a clean, Black woman, with a nice ass and a good vocabulary.” -Lorene
30. “I knew you were going places, and that meant something to me.” -Annette
31. “Highest rated players in the whole fucking country and yet here we are at some second-rate university, playing on cheap plastic boards with cheap plastic pieces.” -Benny
32. “Yes, but chess can also be beautiful.” -Beth Harmon
33. “You’re not entitled to everything I own just ‘cause I signed some papers to shut her up.” -Mr. Wheatly
34. “Where’d you get that from, a fortune cookie?”- Beth Harmon
35. “I wanted to show that fucking pirate that I could beat him even though I didn’t play the way he thought I should.” -Beth Harmon
36. “You’ve got your gift and you’ve got what it costs.” -Mr. Shaibel
37. “Intuition can’t be found in books.” -Alma
38. "Someday, you’re going to be all alone, so you need to figure out how to take care of yourself.” -Alice Harmon
39. “You’re the best there is.” -Benny
40. “What if I kick you in the crotch?” -Beth Harmon
41. “I know, me, a lawyer, but the world is fucked up.” -Lorene
42. “No woman can compete with Benny’s love for himself.” -Cleo
43. “You know, perhaps, Beth, you have to work on yourself.” -Alma
44. “Sure you wouldn’t rather just steal it?” – the Pharmacist
45. “I know you’re better than me but if you’re gonna play the soviets, you need help.” -Harry Beltik
46. “Hey assholes, this is costing me a bundle.” -Benny
47. “Wow, you really were the gold standard for white-trash girls everywhere, weren’t you?” -Jolene
48. “Alma was not pathetic, she was stuck. There’s a difference.” -Beth Harmon
49. “You just let them blow by, and you go on ahead and do just what the hell you feel like.” -Alice
50. “You’re the reason I got my teeth fixed.” -Harry Beltik
51. “I’ve flirted with alcohol most of my life. If anything, I think it’s high time I consummated the relationship.” -Alma
52. “You’ve grown up Harmon. You’ve even gotten good looking.” -Townes
53. “Once I drive away, I’m not coming back.” -Paul
54. “Nobody’s gonna come for us now, were too old or too black.” -Jolene
55. “Orphaned by yesterday’s collision on New Circle Road, Elizabeth Harmon surveys a troubled future.”- Mrs. Deardorff
56. “Green’s to even your disposition. Orange and brown is for building a strong body, take ‘em both.” -Mr. Fergusson
57. “You can beat that… fucker.” -Beth Harmon
58. “Close your eyes.” -Alice Harmon
59. “I find the onion slightly more refined than the olive.” -Alma
60. “You know if you keep doing this, you’re gonna end up washed up by the time you’re 21.” -Benny
61. "Fashion is exciting. Modeling and models are insipid.” -Cleo
62. “If I lived here, I would go to plays, and concerts and I would eat lunch in a different café every day.” -Beth Harmon
63. “He wants to marry me, as soon as he divorces the wife he’s already got.” -Jolene
64. “Maybe is a loser’s word, Beth.” -Benny
65. “Consider me your second. What do we need to do to help you beat Borgov?” -Townes
66. “For a time, I was all you had and for a time, you was all I had.” -Jolene
67. “I will be subtracting what I paid to bury Mother. I’ll show you the receipts.” -Beth Harmon
68. “Us Americans, we work alone because we’re all such individualists.” -Benny
69. “Oh, and dear, be a good girl and get that little bottle of green pills by my bedside.” -Alma
70. “You really are something, you know that?” – Townes
71. “For crying out loud what you still doing in bed? You’re gonna miss breakfast.” -Mr. Fergusson
72. “You honestly believe our daughter belongs in a trailer in the middle of nowhere?” – Paul
73. "Mr. Ganz told me I beat them all in an hour and twenty minutes. It felt good, I’ve never won anything before.” -Beth Harmon
74. “Shit, I make out just fine right here.” – Jolene
75. "She is the model Methuen girl.” -Mrs. Deardorff
76. “That right there is a bone in the throat.” – Benny
77. “I’m pretty sure they’re fucking.” -Beth Harmon
78. “I think I’ll have just one margarita before I go out.” -Alma
79. “Sometimes, I drink more.” -Beth Harmon
80. “You have to get past me first.” -Benny
81. “I can’t make up my mind which one is more handsome.” -Alma
82. “Looks like we’ve been stalking each other.” – Townes
83. “I want to play the best.” – Beth Harmon
84. “Oh, and about sex… forget it.” -Benny
85. “You adopted me. Can’t you talk to me?”-Beth Harmon
86. “Saving is a good lesson for a girl to learn.” – Alma
87. “Because it’s fucking nonsense?” -Beth Harmon
88. “Looks like you’re doing a lot more than pills honey.” -Jolene
89. “You replay the game so you can feel the wins for yourself.” -Benny
90. “I was so proud of myself when I found an error in a Morphy game, and now someone’s done it to me.” -Beth Harmon
91. “Is there anyone you’ve met that you’d like to trade rooks with, or whatever?” –Margaret
92. “Just be careful what you smoke, honey.” -Alma
93. “I feel bad, I owed him 10 dollars.” -Beth Harmon
94. “Poor man has to travel quite a bit these days, but as he likes to remind me, it keeps the roof over our heads.” – Alma
95. “Can they send me back if you no longer have a husband?” -Beth Harmon
96. “I don’t want to set it up and think it out.” -Beth Harmon
97. “You’ve really helped me.” -Beth Harmon
98. “What surprised me was how bad they played.” –Beth Harmon
99. “You destroy everyone you play, Harmon.” -Matt
100. “Girls do not play chess.” -Mr. Shaibel
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