Quote#Wisdom
I may be uninspiring but I'll be damned if I'm alien
Quote byGeorge V · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Said after H. G. Wells referred to "an alien and uninspiring Court" (April 1917), quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign (1953), p. 308.
English (original)
I may be uninspiring but I'll be damned if I'm alien.
— George V
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