#queen

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#around #been #everything #i #i am

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#fun #i #ice #known #me

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. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#better #cautious #check #checking #discovered

The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#most #most powerful #much #powerful #queen

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#called #knight #minor #pieces #queen

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#dear #i #queen #sing

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#city #i #i was born #new #new york

One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#cards #entertainment #queens #king

I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#marguerite #tyler #life

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism