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George Mikes Quotes

«The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.»
Author: George Mikes | About: Nations, World | Keywords: foreigner, foreigners, groups
«Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles»
«The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.»
«In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.»
Author: George Mikes
«Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game»
«Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.»
Author: George Mikes | About: Jokes | Keywords: shortest
«An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.»
Author: George Mikes | Keywords: Englishman, queue, queues
«When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.»
Author: George Mikes
«On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.»
Author: George Mikes