The King's Gambit Quotes

“Pugilism is the silliest of all combat arts. It consists of taking the human hand, with its multitude of tiny, frangible bones, and smashing it against the human skull, a most unyielding target.”
― John Maddox Roberts, The King's Gambit

“Yes, they were evil times, but in my long lifetime I have come to see that the times have always been evil, and the idyllic old days of nobility and virtue never really occurred, but are only the fantasies of poets and moralists.”
― John Maddox Roberts, The King's Gambit