„Goddamn you!“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Alleged last words, after his nurse administered a sedative.
Attributed
Георг V цитаты
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Георг V
Дата рождения: 3. Июнь 1865
Дата смерти: 20. Январь 1936
Георг V — король Соединённого Королевства Великобритании и Ирландии и Соединённого Королевства Великобритании и Северной Ирландии с 6 мая 1910 года до своей смерти; второй сын принца и принцессы Уэльских . Из Саксен-Кобург-Готской династии, с 1917 года из Виндзорской династии.
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Цитаты Георг V
„For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Harold Nicolson; Diary, 17 Aug 1949
About
„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
Attributed in Randolph Churchill's Lord Derby (1959), but said by Kenneth Rose https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rose in King George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal.
Attributed
„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
Speech at Guildhall, 5 Dec 1901, quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George V (1952), p.73
„The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Lord Stamfordham, private secretary to George V, on 26 July 1920. The original Royal Warrant involved an expulsion clause that allowed for a recipient's name to be erased from the official register in certain wholly discreditable circumstances and his pension cancelled. Eight were forfeited between 1861 and 1908. George V strongly opposed the concept of revoking a Victoria Cross, and directed Lord Stamfordham to express this view forcefully in a letter.
About
„It's the shortest one I know.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Allegedly said to Sir Thomas Beecham on the opera La Bohème, on why it was his favourite.
Attributed
„You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Allegedly said to his son, Prince Edward. Quoted by Christopher Warwick in Abdication (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986)
Attributed
„But, remember, I wish to have the best collection, not just one of the best collections in England.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Allegedly said to J.A. Tilleard, Honorary Secretary, Philatelic Society, on appointing him as Philatelist to the King.
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„I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Alleged statement about his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1918)
Attributed
„After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34
„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
Said to Anthony Eden on 23 December 1935 following the furore that erupted over the Hoare-Laval Pact.
Quoted in Earl of Avon, Facing the Dictators (1962) pt.2 ch.1
„They make me look like a stuffed monkey.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Allegedly said about two postage stamps issued in 1911.
Attributed
„What did you do about peeing?“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Allegedly said to Charles Lindbergh after he flew the Atlantic solo in an aeroplane.
Attributed
„I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.“
— George V of the United Kingdom
Allegedly said in response to H. G. Wells's criticism of his "alien [i.e. German-descended] and uninspiring court"
Attributed
„How's the Empire?“
— George V of the United Kingdom
On the morning of his death; quoted in Kenneth Rose, King George V (1983), ch.10
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