George Vi Quotes

#1. I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

Geoffrey Rush

#2. Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming.

Susan Elia MacNeal

#3. Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#4. George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

A.J.P. Taylor

#5. All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI - at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most boyish smile!

Mindy Kaling

#6. The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.

Frank Zappa

#7. It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

George VI

#8. Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Ronald Dworkin

#9. Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

George VI

#10. I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

Curtis Jackson

#11. The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

George VI

#12. Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Malcolm X

#13. The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

#14. I was born, in a crossfire hurricane

Sean Cronin

#15. Memories are fool's gold.

Marty Rubin

#16. when you go through hell - your own darkest night of the soul - don't take pictures to show to your friends.

Carlos Santana

#17. Now then, Dorothy! No snivelling, please! It all comes right somehow if you trust in God. Matthew vi. 35. The Lord will provide.

George Orwell

#18. It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Epictetus

#19. There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

George VI

#20. Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Mark Hyman

#21. Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

Barbara Olson