There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you don't frighten the horses.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

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

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.

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.

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

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.

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