„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.
Георг V цитаты
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Георг V
Дата рождения: 3. Июнь 1865
Дата смерти: 20. Январь 1936
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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.
Цитаты Георг V
„Alleged last words in 1936, in response to being told that he would soon be well enough to visit the seaside resort Bognor Regis“
— George V of the United Kingdom
A second theory is that this dates from the King's 1928/9 recuperative visit there. Local dignitaries went to see the King's private secretary Stamfordham petitioning to have the town renamed Bognor Regis. The King told Stamfordham "Bugger Bognor", which he translated as the King would be pleased to grant their request. (Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century page 6, quoting Kenneth Rose's biography of the King.)
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„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)
„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 [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rose Kenneth Rose] in King George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal.
„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
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„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.
„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.
„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)
„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
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„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
