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Kings Quotes by Howard Staunton
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
- 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…
More Kings Quotes
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for… — Michele Bachmann
- I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could… — Josephine Baker
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac
- I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an… — Antonio Banderas
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King… — Sarah Bernhardt
- As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant
- Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. — Ambrose Bierce
- Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman