king

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ea6b772	"You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister." "Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure." "I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king."	humor dwarfs tyrion-lannister jon-snow king sarcasm	George R.R. Martin
a3e5c23	People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.	learning changing stephen king	Stephen King
8f63b16	Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.	elect narnia queen king	C.S. Lewis
b9cd75a	"How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other."	life love obey vows jaime-lannister knight protect respect king	George R.R. Martin
f2e792b	"From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile."	middle-finger rehvenge j-r-ward lover-reborn wrath king	J.R. Ward
142a6b8	Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!	gunpowder november treason king	Alan Moore
d708ea6	In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .	man life richards richard ben network dystopia stephen survival running king	Stephen King
873e3b0	I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.	boelyn katherine henry mary queen king	Philippa Gregory
d3b1e3c	Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.	magic lucky number richie seven stephen it pennywise king	Stephen King
1dcf117	"Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!"	murder death stephen it pennywise kill monster horror king	Stephen King
9433157	You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world.	stars heaven good world spirit love jewel sea king	Thomas Traherne
5a6a8b9	I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.' 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.	cheshire-cat king	Lewis Carroll
7551d4d	Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty.	rage stanner charlie richard grace decker stephen king	Richard Bachman
f226408	Go on till you come to the end; then stop.	begin go-on wonderland beginning end stop hearts king	Lewis Carroll
2d4dc6d	Once again there was the desert, and that only.	man dark tower chambers deschain gunslinger jake roland stephen desert king	Stephen King
6a16b05	For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.	reality eddie stephen it pennywise nightmare king	Stephen King
fe0cdd2	You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that you do. You breathe in people's ears. You sound like a stallion in heat, Philbrick. That's a shitty habit. You also sound like you're reading off a teleprompter, even when you're not. You ought to take care of stuff like that. You might save a life.	rage philbrick charlie richard decker stephen king	Richard Bachman
b53e282	Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.	monarchy king	Thomas Paine
0378ca7	Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.	rage charlie richard grace decker stephen king psychology	Richard Bachman
1f802b7	"The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. "Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. "We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving." "Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" "I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest." "What were you doing in the forest?" "Looking for food and drink, because we were starving." "And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily. At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word."	friends thorin-oakenshield the-hobbit starving elves food king	J.R.R. Tolkien
2e4d9d6	He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some large and sweaty animal. I don't like that, never have. My father is like that on the telephone. A lot of heavy breathing in your ear, so you can almost smell the scotch and Pall Malls on his breath. It always seems unsanitary and somehow homosexual.	rage charlie richard decker stephen breathing king	Richard Bachman
dff0137	Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.	killing murder father king	Arturo Pérez-Reverte
8456c64	Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like tomato soup. He was just starting to ask his mother what was going on when she threw up. And there, in all that puke, that old dead mouse didn't look bad at all. It sure looked better than the rest of the stuff.	rage charlie disgusting richard vomit decker stephen king	Richard Bachman
827a1d0	For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.	tyrion-lannister a-song-of-ice-and-fire king	George R.R. Martin
255871a	Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.	politics boldness crown bold power king	Robert Greene
245e2f3	HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.	dining polonius social-classes king	William Shakespeare
70e28c9	There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.	ida rich-man king	Gertrude Stein
386205e	"A ruler needs a good head and a true heart," she famously told the king. "A cock is not essential."	humor female-rights ruling ruler fire-and-blood king	George R.R. Martin
e2d1651	He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air. He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was. Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.	life love high-king slave-girl impossible-love first-love spring sunlight lust king	Andrew M. Greeley
3bb456f	"The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty." "It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall."	humor rug mendanbar king	Patricia C. Wrede
6b9b088	"The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty." "It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall." --	humor rug mendanbar king	Patricia C. Wrede
b6b80ce	"Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not."	the-red-queen the-cousins-war hopeless king	Philippa Gregory
0736342	Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the sea to the kingdom of Gondor.	war fantasy middle-earth victory lotr king	J.R.R. Tolkien
545c11d	Spleen Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux, Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant tres vieux, Qui, de ses precepteurs meprisant les courbettes, S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres betes. Rien ne peut l'egayer, ni gibier, ni faucon, Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon. Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade; Son lit fleurdelise se transforme en tombeau, Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau, Ne savent plus trouver d'impudique toilette Pour tirer un souris de ce jeune squelette. Le savant qui lui fait de l'or n'a jamais pu De son etre extirper l'element corrompu, Et dans ces bains de sang qui des Romains nous viennent, Et dont sur leurs vieux jours les puissants se souviennent, II n'a su rechauffer ce cadavre hebete Ou coule au lieu de sang l'eau verte du Lethe // I'm like the king of a rain-country, rich but sterile, young but with an old wolf's itch, one who escapes his tutor's monologues, and kills the day in boredom with his dogs; nothing cheers him, darts, tennis, falconry, his people dying by the balcony; the bawdry of the pet hermaphrodite no longer gets him through a single night; his bed of fleur-de-lys becomes a tomb; even the ladies of the court, for whom all kings are beautiful, cannot put on shameful enough dresses for this skeleton; the scholar who makes his gold cannot invent washes to cleanse the poisoned element; even in baths of blood, Rome's legacy, our tyrants' solace in senility, he cannot warm up his shot corpse, whose food is syrup-green Lethean ooze, not blood. -- Robert Lowell, from Marthiel & Jackson Matthews, eds., The Flowers of Evil (NY: New Directions, 1963)	king spleen	Charles Baudelaire
5ea1fc0	"I'm not going to dress in velvet robes with ermine trim when I'm spending the day hanging pictures and cleaning out the attic in the South Tower, no matter how much Willin would like it," Mendanbar said firmly."	mendanbar king	Patricia C. Wrede
6e99626	Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!	the-north the-wall king	George R.R. Martin
12c4454	"The King's Hand should have a hand," the Hand said "I will not have men speaking of the King's Stump"	humor jape kingdom king	George R.R. Martin
67cbed1	For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.	howard-pyle chivalry knight king	Howard Pyle
18c7b0b	You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.	king	Hilary Mantel
a0279f8	It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.	weakness king	Arturo Pérez-Reverte
1048fe3	"Wrath jammed a finger in V's face. "Don't follow me. We clear? You don't follow me." "You stupid fool," V said with total exhaustion. "You're the king. We all must follow you." -Wrath & Vishous"	stupid-fool king	J.R. Ward

ea6b772

"You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister." "Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure." "I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king."

humor dwarfs tyrion-lannister jon-snow king sarcasm

George R.R. Martin

a3e5c23

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

learning changing stephen king

Stephen King

8f63b16

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

elect narnia queen king

C.S. Lewis

b9cd75a

"How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other."

life love obey vows jaime-lannister knight protect respect king

George R.R. Martin

f2e792b

"From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile."

middle-finger rehvenge j-r-ward lover-reborn wrath king

J.R. Ward

142a6b8

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

gunpowder november treason king

Alan Moore

d708ea6

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

man life richards richard ben network dystopia stephen survival running king

Stephen King

873e3b0

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

boelyn katherine henry mary queen king

Philippa Gregory

d3b1e3c

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

magic lucky number richie seven stephen it pennywise king

Stephen King

1dcf117

"Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!"

murder death stephen it pennywise kill monster horror king

Stephen King

9433157

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world.

stars heaven good world spirit love jewel sea king

Thomas Traherne

5a6a8b9

I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.' 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.

cheshire-cat king

Lewis Carroll

7551d4d

Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty.

rage stanner charlie richard grace decker stephen king

Richard Bachman

f226408

Go on till you come to the end; then stop.

begin go-on wonderland beginning end stop hearts king

Lewis Carroll

2d4dc6d

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

man dark tower chambers deschain gunslinger jake roland stephen desert king

Stephen King

6a16b05

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

reality eddie stephen it pennywise nightmare king

Stephen King

fe0cdd2

You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that you do. You breathe in people's ears. You sound like a stallion in heat, Philbrick. That's a shitty habit. You also sound like you're reading off a teleprompter, even when you're not. You ought to take care of stuff like that. You might save a life.

rage philbrick charlie richard decker stephen king

Richard Bachman

b53e282

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

monarchy king

Thomas Paine

0378ca7

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.

rage charlie richard grace decker stephen king psychology

Richard Bachman

1f802b7

"The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. "Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. "We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving." "Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" "I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest." "What were you doing in the forest?" "Looking for food and drink, because we were starving." "And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily. At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word."

friends thorin-oakenshield the-hobbit starving elves food king

J.R.R. Tolkien

2e4d9d6

He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some large and sweaty animal. I don't like that, never have. My father is like that on the telephone. A lot of heavy breathing in your ear, so you can almost smell the scotch and Pall Malls on his breath. It always seems unsanitary and somehow homosexual.

rage charlie richard decker stephen breathing king

Richard Bachman

dff0137

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

killing murder father king

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

8456c64

Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like tomato soup. He was just starting to ask his mother what was going on when she threw up. And there, in all that puke, that old dead mouse didn't look bad at all. It sure looked better than the rest of the stuff.

rage charlie disgusting richard vomit decker stephen king

Richard Bachman

827a1d0

For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

tyrion-lannister a-song-of-ice-and-fire king

George R.R. Martin

255871a

Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.

politics boldness crown bold power king

Robert Greene

245e2f3

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

dining polonius social-classes king

William Shakespeare

70e28c9

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

ida rich-man king

Gertrude Stein

386205e

"A ruler needs a good head and a true heart," she famously told the king. "A cock is not essential."

humor female-rights ruling ruler fire-and-blood king

George R.R. Martin

e2d1651

He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air. He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was. Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.

life love high-king slave-girl impossible-love first-love spring sunlight lust king

Andrew M. Greeley

3bb456f

"The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty." "It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall."

humor rug mendanbar king

Patricia C. Wrede

6b9b088

"The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty." "It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall." --

humor rug mendanbar king

Patricia C. Wrede

b6b80ce

"Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not."

the-red-queen the-cousins-war hopeless king

Philippa Gregory

0736342

Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the sea to the kingdom of Gondor.

war fantasy middle-earth victory lotr king

J.R.R. Tolkien

545c11d

Spleen Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux, Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant tres vieux, Qui, de ses precepteurs meprisant les courbettes, S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres betes. Rien ne peut l'egayer, ni gibier, ni faucon, Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon. Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade; Son lit fleurdelise se transforme en tombeau, Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau, Ne savent plus trouver d'impudique toilette Pour tirer un souris de ce jeune squelette. Le savant qui lui fait de l'or n'a jamais pu De son etre extirper l'element corrompu, Et dans ces bains de sang qui des Romains nous viennent, Et dont sur leurs vieux jours les puissants se souviennent, II n'a su rechauffer ce cadavre hebete Ou coule au lieu de sang l'eau verte du Lethe // I'm like the king of a rain-country, rich but sterile, young but with an old wolf's itch, one who escapes his tutor's monologues, and kills the day in boredom with his dogs; nothing cheers him, darts, tennis, falconry, his people dying by the balcony; the bawdry of the pet hermaphrodite no longer gets him through a single night; his bed of fleur-de-lys becomes a tomb; even the ladies of the court, for whom all kings are beautiful, cannot put on shameful enough dresses for this skeleton; the scholar who makes his gold cannot invent washes to cleanse the poisoned element; even in baths of blood, Rome's legacy, our tyrants' solace in senility, he cannot warm up his shot corpse, whose food is syrup-green Lethean ooze, not blood. -- Robert Lowell, from Marthiel & Jackson Matthews, eds., The Flowers of Evil (NY: New Directions, 1963)

king spleen

Charles Baudelaire

5ea1fc0

"I'm not going to dress in velvet robes with ermine trim when I'm spending the day hanging pictures and cleaning out the attic in the South Tower, no matter how much Willin would like it," Mendanbar said firmly."

mendanbar king

Patricia C. Wrede

6e99626

Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!

the-north the-wall king

George R.R. Martin

12c4454

"The King's Hand should have a hand," the Hand said "I will not have men speaking of the King's Stump"

humor jape kingdom king

George R.R. Martin

67cbed1

For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.

howard-pyle chivalry knight king

Howard Pyle

18c7b0b

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

king

Hilary Mantel

a0279f8

It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.

weakness king

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

1048fe3

"Wrath jammed a finger in V's face. "Don't follow me. We clear? You don't follow me." "You stupid fool," V said with total exhaustion. "You're the king. We all must follow you." -Wrath & Vishous"

stupid-fool king

J.R. Ward