George V Quotes

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

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.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

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

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

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.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

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.