Lionel Logue: Long pauses are good: they add solemnity to great occasions.
King George VI: Then I'm the solemnest king who ever lived
Lionel Logue: Would I lie to a prince of the realm to win twelve pennies?
King George VI: I have no idea what an Australian might do for that sort of money.
Lionel Logue: How do you feel?
King George VI: Full of hot air.
Lionel Logue: Isn't that what public speaking's all about?
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...
[unable to say "people"]
King George VI: You see, 'P' is always difficult, even... even when I'm singing.
Lionel Logue: Oh, surely a prince's brain knows what its mouth's doing?
King George VI: You're not... well acquainted with royal princes, are you?
King George VI: Is the nation ready for two... minutes of radio silence?
Myrtle Logue: Will their Majesties be staying to dinner?
Queen Elizabeth: We'd love to - such a treat - but, ah... alas, a... previous engagement. What a pity.
Myrtle Logue: What's the matter, love?
Lionel Logue: [referring to the Duke of York] I'm just having trouble with a patient.
Myrtle Logue: That isn't like you. Why?
Lionel Logue: Scared. He's afraid of his own shadow .
Myrtle Logue: Isn't that why they come to you?
King George VI: Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait rather a long wait.
King George VI: I'm not going to sit here warbling.
Lionel Logue: You can with me.
King George VI: Because you're peculiar.
Lionel Logue: I take that as a compliment.
King George VI: [speaking of Wallis Simpson] And you put that woman in our mother's suite!
King Edward VIII: Mama's not still in the bed, is she?
King George VI: That's not funny.
Lionel Logue: [referring to the Duke of York] This fellow could really be somebody great. He's fighting me.
Myrtle Logue: Perhaps he doesn't want to be great. Perhaps that's what you want.
Queen Elizabeth: [to Winston Churchill, on the hold that Wallis Simpson seems to have on Edward VIII] Apparently she has certain skills - acquired in an establishment in Shanghai.
Dr. Blandine Bentham: Cigarette smoking calms the nerves and, uh, gives you confidence.
King Edward VIII: Haven't I any rights?
King George VI: Many privileges.
King Edward VIII: Not the same thing.
Lionel Logue: Am I considered the enemy?
Queen Elizabeth: You will be, if you remain unobliging.
