"It's the shortest one I know."

George V of the United Kingdom See all quotes by George V of the United Kingdom →

React to this quote

More by George V of the United Kingdom

“You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.”

“The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.”

“I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.”

“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.”

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

“What did you do about peeing?”

Resonant Thoughts

"In the early twenty-first century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction. Very few people read the latest articles in the fields of machine learning or genetic engineering. Inst…"

— Yuval Noah Harari

Literature1976

#knowledge

"A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and hagg…"

— Charles Dickens

Literature1719–1793

#knowledge

"There can be no dispute as to what our duty as the rulers of India requires us to do. But it has been said, and may be said again, that whatever our duty may be, it is not our policy to enlighten the …"

— Sir Charles Trevelyan

1807–1886

#knowledge