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George II of Great Britain
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“Non, j'aurai des maîtresses.”
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) said by 1760 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William M. White Emmanuel Swedenborg ([1856] 1867) vol. 2, p. 308.
“I hate painting, and poetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.”
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) said by 1760 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Ireland Hogarth Illustrated (1791); cited from John Ireland and John Nichols Hogarth's Works (1883) p. 122.
“There are kings enough in England. I am nothing there. I am old and want rest and should only go to be plagued and teased there about that Damned House of Commons.”
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) first seen 1755 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement made in Hanover (1755), quoted in Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole (Cornell University Press, 2018), pp. 113–114
“If he is mad, so much the better; and if he is mad, I hope to God he’ll bite some of my generals.”
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) said by 1760 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New-York Magazine (November 1791) p. 662.