“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”

Attributed in Randolph Churchill's Lord Derby (1959), but said by Kenneth Rose https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rose in King George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal.
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