The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

I hate all Boets and Bainters.
In John Campbell ‘The Lives of the Chief Justices’ (1849) ch. 30 ‘Lord Mansfield’
7.27 George II 1683-1760
Non, j’aurai des maîtresses.
No, I shall have mistresses.
To Queen Caroline when, on her death bed, she urged him to marry again; in John Hervey ‘Memoirs of the
Reign of George II’ (1848) vol. 2. The Queen replied: ‘Ah! mon dieu! cela n’empêche pas [Oh, my God!
That won’t prevent you]’
We are come for your good, for all your goods.
Speech at Portsmouth, probably 1716, in Joseph Spence ‘Anecdotes’ (ed. J. M. Osborn, 1966) no. 903
Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.
Replying to the Duke of Newcastle, who had complained that General Wolfe was a madman, in Henry
Beckles Willson ‘The Life and Letters of James Wolfe’ (1909) ch. 17
7.28 George III 1738-1820
Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
‘The King’s Speech on Opening the Session’ in ‘Hansard’ 18 November 1760, col. 942
Was there ever such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what
think you?—what?—Is there not sad stuff? what?—what?
To Fanny Burney, in her Diary 19 December 1785
7.29 George IV 1762-1830
Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
On first seeing Caroline of Brunswick, his future wife; in Earl of Malmesbury ‘Diaries’ 5 April 1795
7.30 George V 1865-1936
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren
across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of
pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.
Speech at Guildhall, 5 December 1901, in Harold Nicolson ‘King George V’ (1952) p. 73 (the speech was
reprinted in 1911 with the title ‘Wake up, England’)
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon
earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of
war.
Message read at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May 1922, in ‘The Times’ 15 May 1922
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.
In conversation with Anthony Eden, 23 December 1935, following Samuel Hoare’s resignation as Foreign
Secretary on 18 December 1935, in Earl of Avon ‘Facing the Dictators’ (1962) pt. 2, ch. 1
After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.