George V quotes
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“Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.”
-- George VSource : 1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.
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“I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.”
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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.”
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“Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist”
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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 VSource : Message read at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May 1922, in 'The Times' 15 May 1922
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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.”
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“Golf always makes me so damned angry.”
-- George VSource : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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“Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.”
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“I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.”
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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.”
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