Quotes by King George V

“Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance”

“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.”

“How is the Empire?”

“Wake up, England.”

“I may be uninspiring, but Ill be damned if Im an alien!”

“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.”

“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.”

“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”

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.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.