Quote#Wisdom
There are kings enough in England. I am nothing there. I am old and…
Quote byGeorge II of Great Britain · 1683–1760
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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.
English (original)
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.
— George II of Great Britain
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