Giorgio II Augusto di Hannover fu re di Gran Bretagna e di Irlanda, Duca di Brunswick-Lünenburg , Arcitesoriere e Principe elettore del Sacro Romano Impero dall'11 giugno 1727 fino alla morte. Fu Duca di Cambridge e Principe del Galles prima della sua ascesa al trono britannico. Fu il secondo re del Casato di Hannover e l'ultimo monarca inglese a condurre personalmente le sue truppe in battaglia . Sposò la principessa tedesca Carolina di Brandeburgo-Ansbach. Wikipedia
“I hate bainting, and boetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.”
John Ireland Hogarth Illustrated (1791); cited from John Ireland and John Nichols Hogarth's Works (1883) p. 122.
Later sources usually quote this as "I hate all bainters and boets!", or as "Damn the bainters and the boets too!" The saying is often misattributed to George I.
“If he is mad, so much the better; and if he is mad, I hope to God he’ll bite some of my generals.”
The New-York Magazine (November 1791) p. 662.
On being warned by the Duke of Newcastle, in 1758, against promoting James Wolfe. Often quoted as "Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."
As quoted in Sir James Prior's Life of Edmond Malone (1860), p. 369.
Attributed
Non, j'aurai des maîtresses.
William M. White Emmanuel Swedenborg ([1856] 1867) vol. 2, p. 308.
Tearfully answering his wife, Queen Caroline, who as she lay dying had urged him to marry again.
Horace Walpole Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second (1847) vol. 1, p. 180
About George II
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
