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Gaunt Famine never shall approach the throne. Though Ireland starve, great George weighstwenty stone.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto 8, stanza126.
Mr Lloyd George spoke for17 minutes, in which period he was detected only once in the use of an argument.
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett— 1921Things That Have Interested Me.
An episode out of George Orwell rewritten by Charles Dickens.
alistair Cooke— 1979 Of Gerald R Ford's succession to the US presidency on Richard M Nixon's resignation. The Americans.
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
Margot Asquith— In conversation with James Agate, September 30, 1941; reported by Agate in his Ego 5 (London: Harrap, 1942) p. 136.
— Sometimes also attributed to John Maynard Keynes.
I want to be the George Clooney of music.
george clooney— Jason Liberatore, when asked if he could mirror any artist's career, whose would it be and why.
— No byline (2007). "Bio" AlmostGreen.com (accessed June 25, 2007)
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace.
stephen colbert— "A Mock Columnist, Amok", in The New York Times (14 October 2007)
George - don't do that.
joyce grenfell— Catch phrase, used as the title of her book George - Don't Do That (1977)
Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
david helvarg— Grist magazine, January 3, 2005.
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ["Treason!" cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
patrick henry— Speech on the Stamp Act, Virginia House of Burgesses (29 May 1765)
For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?"
moby— Quoted in "Punk the prez? Moby's anti-Bush tricks" by George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, New York Daily News (2004-02-09)
— For Moby's comment on this news item, see "today's daily news", journal entry 2004-02-09 at moby.com
Ah que je— Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous l'avez voulu, cela vous sied fort bien, et vous voilà ajusté comme il faut, vous avez justement ce que vous méritez.
molière— Ah that I— You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve.Georges Dandin (1668), Act I, sc. vii.
He was born on third base and thought he hit a triple. [about George Bush, Sr.]
Ann Richards— Earlier use by Barry Switzer
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. I was the first to really go after George W. on his treatment of prisoners.
william safire— "William Safire to End Op-Ed Run at N.Y. Times" by Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post (16 November 2004)
These are harsh words for a man only recently canonized by President Clinton and my old friend George McGovern -- but I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.
hunter s. thompson— "He Was a Crook" (Nixon obituary), Rolling Stone (June 16, 1994)
But people have been acting as though no white man can mention or praise or support the mission of Martin Luther King. I'm sorry, African Americans don't own Martin Luther King; it's a human idea, just like white people don't own George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. These are American icons and ideas, and we are all Americans.
glenn beck— Glenn Beck, Fox News, 12 July 2010, 00:25:43 "Beck: African-Americans "don't own Martin Luther King"", Media Matters for America, 12 July 2010
The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses .
jacob bronowski— The Reader's Digest (1964) Vol. 84; also quoted in Structure and Plan (1974) by Glen A. Love, p. 154
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.
james frazer— Chapter 3, Sympathetic Magic
He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
dennis kucinich— Democratic National Candidates Debate, Goffstown, New Hampshire (22 January 2004) [5].
Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.
sarah palin— to Women of Joy in Louisville, quoted in Grossman, Cathy Lynn (21 April 2010), "Sarah Palin throws the God punch — again", USA Today on separation of church and state
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
nancy pelosi— Associated Press (March 8, 2007). "House Dems face uphill battle to end Iraq war". MSNBC.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.
Anthony Trollope— First lines
'We, the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document [the Preamble to the US Constitution] was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
— Barbara Jordan, Statement made on July 25, 1974 before the House Committee on the Judiciary
The Corporation of Chennai (previously Madras) is the Oldest Municipal Institution in India established on the 29th September 1688. A charter was issued on the 30 December 1607 by East Indian Company constituting the "Town of Fort St. George" and all the territories thereunto belonging, not exceeding the distance of ten miles from the Fort, into a Corporation.
— Corporation of Chennai, in About Corporation of Chennai
Lord Lytton (1876-80) organised the Delhi Durbar in 1877 to entitle Queen Victoria Kaiser-i-Hind ...Delhi was made capital in place of Calcutta in 1912; Coronation Durbar of King George (V) and Queen Marry was held at Delhi in 1911.
Mukitkanta Mohanty— Macmillan's General Knowledge Manual 2010, Macmillan, 1 February 2010, p.17
During the American Revolution, George Washington used to call out for "beef, beef, beef," but the Continental Congress called out for "pork, pork, pork."
— Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) as a comment quoted by Representative Clarence Cannon.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists from Man and Superman
— used on 2 September 2004, selected by Kalki
Gracie Allen and George Burns (themselves)
— "Together again."
George Carlin (suggested by himself)
— This was his suggestion for an epitaph. In reality he was cremated and his ashes scattered.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry God for Harry! England and Saint George!
— King Henry, scene i
And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
— Philip Faulconbridge, scene i
