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• By God, Harrison, I will see you righted!
  • Said ca. 1772, speaking to John Harrison's son William. Quoted in Dava Sobel, Longitude (1995, Fourth Estate Limited. London. Printed 1998. ISBN 1-85702-571-7), p. 147

• I wish nothing but good; therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

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• "'Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well ?' 'Very well indeed, sir,' was the enthusiastic answer. 'I am glad of that,' replied the king; 'for there was nothing in it.'"

• Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

• My Lords and peacocks.

• Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

• I glory in the name of Briton!

• When a petitioner attempted to stab the King he told her with the greatest calmness, "This is a fruit knife madam, it couldn't cut a cabbage."

• I was the last person to consent to the separation (of America and Britain), but I will be the first to accept the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
  • To John Adams, first United States Minister to Great Britain

Quotes about George III

• George the Third
  Ought never to have occurred.
  One can only wonder
  At so grotesque a blunder.
  • E. C. Bentley

• We I hope shall be left free to avail ourselves of the advantages of neutrality: and yet much I fear the English, or rather their stupid king, will force us out of it. (...) Common sense dictates therefore that they should let us remain neuter: ergo they will not let us remain neuter. I never yet found any other general rule for foretelling what they will do, but that of examining what they ought not to do.
  • Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams, then ambassador to Great Britain. (1789-09-28)