„Ile osób zabił pan na wojnie, generale?”
do generała George’a Pattona.
Źródło: anegdota z książki Sarah Bradford The reluctant king: the life & reign of George VI, 1895–1952, St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Jerzy VI: 7 cytatów0 Polubień
Jerzy VI słynne cytaty
„Nie jesteśmy rodziną, lecz firmą.”
o Windsorach.
Źródło: Arthur Beverley Baxter, Destiny Called to Them, Oxford University Press, 1939.
Źródło: Mariusz Misztal, Historia Malty w: Historia małych krajów Europy pod red. Józefa Łaptosa, Ossolineum, Wrocław 2002, ISBN 8304045907, s. 367.
Jerzy VI: Cytaty po angielsku
“We are not a family, we are a firm.”
On the Royal family, quoted by A. B. Baxter in Destiny Called to Them (Oxford University Press, 1939)
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Announcement made on 24 September 1940, establishing the George Cross medal to reward civilian acts of the highest courage.
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“You've been pretty unlucky with the weather, Mr Piper.”
On seeing John Piper's dark views of Windsor Castle painted during the last war. Given in Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 25.
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“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
Taken from the British Royal Family History website, http://www.britroyals.com/windsor.asp?id=george6 <br class="br">Attributed