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Juraj II. bol od roku 1727 kráľ Veľkej Británie a Írska.

✵ 30. október 1683 – 25. október 1760
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“I hate bainting, and boetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.”

John Ireland Hogarth Illustrated (1791); cited from John Ireland and John Nichols Hogarth's Works (1883) p. 122.
Later sources usually quote this as "I hate all bainters and boets!", or as "Damn the bainters and the boets too!" The saying is often misattributed to George I.

“If he is mad, so much the better; and if he is mad, I hope to God he’ll bite some of my generals.”

The New-York Magazine (November 1791) p. 662.
On being warned by the Duke of Newcastle, in 1758, against promoting James Wolfe. Often quoted as "Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."

“No, I'll have mistresses.”

Non, j'aurai des maîtresses.
William M. White Emmanuel Swedenborg ([1856] 1867) vol. 2, p. 308.
Tearfully answering his wife, Queen Caroline, who as she lay dying had urged him to marry again.

“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.”

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