Kings Quotes - Page 30

• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

  Christopher Moore

  Moving, Fall, Archer

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• Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!

  Robert Graves

  Moon, Fire, Blood

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• The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Atheist, Jobs

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Your Boyfriend, Monsters

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• King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

  Robin Hobb

  Expecting

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.751, Del Rey

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• Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

  David O. McKay

  Heart, Character, Men

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Pigs, Sea, Wings

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• What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Boys, Boring

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

  David Eddings

  Son, Soldier, Argument

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• One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Slim

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• If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience. "Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well." "Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt." He looked down at his sleeve, embroidered with white flowers. "Not in your nightshirt, though.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Flower, White

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• If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Golf, Green Fields

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that this justice will come when the universe deems it appropriate and it may not be in this lifetime or the next, or the one after that.... but it will come.

  Garth Stein

  Karma, People, Justice

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Fun, Pain, Anger

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.409, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Light, And Love

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.586, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can’t kill all your fun. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wise, Fun, Party

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• There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Daughter, Lovely

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Warrior, Walking Forward

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VII: The Last Battle”, p.94, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Princess, Names, Dukes

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Children, Guy, Earth

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.

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• As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

  Francine Rivers

  Heart, Men, Shepherds

  Francine Rivers (2009). “Redeeming Love: A Novel”, p.224, Multnomah

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• How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Cases, Chiefs, Ministers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.33, 谷月社

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• This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, War, Blessed

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dramatic Life, Life Is, Peasants

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