King's speech movie - quotes

King George VI: Because I bloody well stammer!

King George VI: [Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing?

King George VI: [Simultaneously] That... chair... is the seat on which every king and queen has...

Lionel Logue: You have such perseverance Bertie, you're the bravest man I know.

Lionel Logue: You have such perseverance Bertie, you're the bravest man I know.

Share this [watching a clip of Hitler speaking]

Stanley Baldwin: Sir, I have asked to see you today in order to tender my resignation as Prime Minister.

It's a matter of principle.

I have found it impossible to believe that there is any man in the world so lacking in moral feeling as Hitler.

And that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war.

And that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war.

And that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war.

This was always Hitler's intention.

Queen Elizabeth: [Using the name "Mrs. Johnson"] My husband's work involves a great deal of public speaking.

Lionel Logue: What is he, an indentured servant?

Lionel Logue: What is he, an indentured servant?

Myrtle Logue: Will their Majesties be staying for dinner?

[Logue and Bertie look panic-stricken.

Elizabeth comes to the rescue]

Queen Elizabeth: We would love to, such a treat, but alas... a previous engagement.

What a pity.

Lionel Logue: [sarcastic] Makes it official then.

Can I levy a tax, declare a war?

Can I levy a tax, declare a war?

Queen Elizabeth: [to Winston Churchill, on the hold that Wallis Simpson seems to have on Edward VIII] Apparently she has certain skills - acquired at an establishment in Shanghai.

Queen Elizabeth: [to Winston Churchill, on the hold that Wallis Simpson seems to have on Edward VIII] Apparently she has certain skills - acquired at an establishment in Shanghai.

Queen Elizabeth: [to Winston Churchill, on the hold that Wallis Simpson seems to have on Edward VIII] Apparently she has certain skills - acquired at an establishment in Shanghai.

King George VI: In this grave hour fuck fuck fuck perhaps the most fateful in our history bugger shit shit. [singing]

King George VI: I send to every household of my p-p-peoples...

King George VI: All that work down the drain.

Lionel Logue: Vulgar, but fluent; you don't stammer when you swear.

Lionel Logue: ...you see, not a hesitation!

[Bertie inhales]

Now exhale slowly...

Now we must invade people's homes and ingratiate ourselves with them.

Now we must invade people's homes and ingratiate ourselves with them.

King George VI: You're not well acquainted with princes, are you.

King George VI: Logue, you're being a coward.

King George VI: Get out there, now! [the two men go into the next room, where Myrtle Logue has just met the Queen Consort]

I believe you two [indicating the Queen]

He asks his second son, the Duke of York, to give the final closing speech at the Empire Exhibition in Wembley, London.

Dr. Blandine Bentham: Cigarette smoking calms the nerves and gives you confidence.

King George VI: Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait rather a long wait.

King George VI: If we were equals, I wouldn't be here.

King George VI: Many privileges.

King George VI: Waiting for a king to apologize, one can wait a long wait.

King George VI: Every monarch in history has succeeded someone who is dead.

My predecessor's not only alive, but very much so.

King George VI: Precisely.

King George VI: In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you, as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

King George VI: In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you, as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies.

Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies.

But it has been in vain.

We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.

Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right.

Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right.

Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right.

Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right.

For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge.

It is to this high purpose that I now call my people at home, and my peoples across the seas, who will make our cause their own.

The task will be hard.

There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield.

But we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God.