Castle
A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
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Castle Quotations
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
Bill Wyman
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.
Christopher Meloni
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram Stoker
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
Queen Elizabeth II
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
Enya
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
Bram Stoker
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Clare Boothe Luce
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice Hoffman
Castle Translations
castle in Afrikaans is kasteel, toring
castle in Dutch is slot, plecht, kasteel, burcht
castle in Finnish is torni
castle in Italian is torre, castello
castle in Norwegian is slott
castle in Portuguese is castelo, torre
castle in Spanish is castillo, torre
castle in Swedish is slott, slott, borg, borg
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