Kings Quotes - Page 26

• Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Father, Arrows, Black

  J R R Tolkien (1973). “The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings”

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• Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stills, Asks, Ifs

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Dresses, Paradise

  Common Sense (1776)

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• We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this exercise was not to begin a sentence with "And." When I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with "And," I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves at that time was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible.

  Stephen Hawking

  Symbolism, Taught, Vain

  "My Brief History". Book by Stephen Hawking, September 10, 2013.

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• We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Queens, Believe

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• We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Stars, Army

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• Be good now, Potty...Weasel King.

  J. K. Rowling

  Weasels, Potty, Be Good

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• Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Woods, Blame, Force

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Character, Understanding, Facts

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.147, e-artnow

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• Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Bishops, Discworld

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.

  Nora Roberts

  Fate, Boys, Destiny

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.137, Penguin

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• Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Soul, Done

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.383, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Fans

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• Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Deer, Speak, Christ

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Gareth and Lynette' (1872) l. 117

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• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

  Boris Pasternak

  War, Men, Order

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• Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

  Jose Saramago

  Doe, Monk, Habit

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• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Men, Race

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• 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 another.

  George R. R. Martin

  Father, Law, Secret

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1293, Bantam

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• When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Book, Mind

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Sin, Corruption

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Fall

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Stars, Moving

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Three, Never Trust, Vow

  Mercedes Lackey (1989). “Oathbreakers”, p.221, Penguin

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• All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

  Mark Twain

  Fur, Make Out, I Can

  Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, p.276, Lulu.com

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• It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

  Jimmy Buffett

  Needs, Protection, Tales

  Song: Vampires, Mummies, And The Holy Ghost, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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