Any Quote 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…

— Howard Staunton

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that…

— Mikhail Tal

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

— Wilhelm Steinitz

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

— Howard Staunton

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one…

— Howard Staunton

I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!

— Wilhelm Steinitz

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move…

— Howard Staunton

The king is a strong piece - use it !

— Reuben Fine

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they…

— RZA

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of…

— John Milton

We are either kings or pawns of men

— Napoleon Bonaparte