- [asked, when ill, to give the town of Bognor a Royal title] "Bugger Bognor." (Still the town became Bognor Regis)
- Referring to his son Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) who abdicated the throne eleven months after his death: "After I am dead the boy will ruin himself within 12 months"
- I pray to God my eldest son will never marry and have children and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne. (1935)
- Referring to great popularity: "I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow."
- I will not have another war. I will not! The last one was none of my doing and if there is another one and we are threatened with being brought into it, I will go to Trafalgar Square and wave a red flag myself sooner than allow this country to be brought in. - to David Lloyd George, following Benito Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935
- I thought that men like that shot themselves.
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