- Prince
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- Nov 07, 2020
King Quotes
Words fit for a crown, from throne to everyday life.
This page gathers king quotes that move well beyond palace walls - comparing a monarch's day to the arc of the sun, and framing actors as hidden wizards and kings. For more in this vein, see our Shayari collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hard rock I got into around twelve or thirteen. My uncle introduced me to Scorpions, Great White and everything rock. From there, I expanded out, and I listened to Nuclear Assault, Exodus, Megadeth, King Diamond and Misfits, of course.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
- Beautiful Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that you can watch them as a group and watch how the story evolves, but I think each one was made in its own entirety, and each one has its own palate of sound and music and color and characterization.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
- Onion
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- Nov 07, 2020