George V of the United Kingdom Quotes

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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 of the United Kingdom
A wonderful book, but there are some very queer things in it.

George V of the United Kingdom
On hearing the Grenadier Guards playing an arrangement of Richard Strauss' Elektra, he sent a message to the bandmaster:
His Majesty does not know what the Band has just played, but it is never to be played again.

George V of the United Kingdom
I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm an alien!
George V was furious when H. G. Wells spoke of 'an alien and uninspiring court'

George V of the United Kingdom
To Anthony Eden, after Samuel Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary:
I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.

George V of the United Kingdom
I will not have another war. I will not. The last one was none of my doing and if there is another one and we are threatened with being brought into it, I will go to Trafalgar Square and wave a red flag myself sooner than allow this country to be brought in.

George V of the United Kingdom
The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.

George V of the United Kingdom
Of his son, Edward, Prince of Wales:
After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

George V of the United Kingdom
I pray that my coming to Ireland today may prove to be the first step towards an end of strife among her people, whatever their race or creed. In that hope I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to join with me in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.

George V of the United Kingdom
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 of the United Kingdom