George V Quotes

• Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

  George V

  Life, Godly, Advice

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• My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

  George V

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Mother

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• Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

  George V

  Fear, People, Would Be

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• Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

  George V

  Government, Years, Today

  1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.

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• If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

  George V

  Publish, Written, Ifs

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• I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

  George V

  War, Years, Earth

  Message read at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May 1922, in 'The Times' 15 May 1922

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• I thought men like that shot themselves.

  George V

  Sarcastic, Men, Shots

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• I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

  George V

  May, Aliens, Ifs

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• Dialogue is character and character is plot.

  George V

  Character, Plot, Dialogue

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• I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

  George V

  Ordinary, Fellows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Golf always makes me so damned angry.

  George V

  Golf, Angry

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

  George V

  Artist, Data, Dilettantes

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• No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

  George V

  Paris, Coal, Newcastle

  In conversation with Anthony Eden, 23 December 1935, following Samuel Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary on 18 December 1935, in Earl of Avon 'Facing the Dictators' (1962) pt. 2, ch. 1

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