Quote#Remembrance
When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me
Quote byEdward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow · 1731–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. Wilkes is reported to have replied, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He ’ll see you damned first". Edmund Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!" —Henry Peter, Lord Brougham, Statesmen.
English (original)
When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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