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.


attributed in Randolph S. Churchill Lord Derby (1959), but said by Kenneth Rose in George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal

George V of the United Kingdom Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.