George quotes

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

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

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

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  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!

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

Georgedon't do that.

-Joyce ne  e Phipps Grenfell
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.

- Alexander Pope
  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.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^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.