George quotes

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.6,'The Monarchy'.

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  More Biography,'George the Third'.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Lord Mountarat's song, Iolanthe, act 2.

Georgeödon't do that.

-Grenfell,Joyce ne¤  e Phipps
Catchphrase from one of her comic monologues, also the title of her autobiography,1977.

   In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.229^35.

Darkness came down on the field and city: and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^8  Vanity Fair, ch.32.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of medical thought.

-Plum
  The InimitableJeeves, ch.16.

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