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Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States (George Mikes Quotes)
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead (George Mikes Quotes)
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality (George Mikes Quotes)
Foreigners have souls; the English haven’t (George Mikes Quotes)
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one (George Mikes Quotes)
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact (George Mikes Quotes)
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation (George Mikes Quotes)
Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow (George Mikes Quotes)
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state (George Mikes Quotes)
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues (George Mikes Quotes)
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour (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 (George Mikes Quotes)
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school (George Mikes Quotes)
I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel (George Mikes Quotes)
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money (George Mikes Quotes)
It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss (George Mikes Quotes)
If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity (George Mikes Quotes)
It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. ‘Go and look at a railway station,’ I was told, ‘and you’ll be horrified.’ I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place (George Mikes Quotes)
Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking (George Mikes Quotes)
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. (George Mikes Quotes)
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. (George Mikes Quotes)
I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel. (George Mikes Quotes)
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain. (George Mikes Quotes)
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. (George Mikes Quotes)
Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better (George Mikes Quotes)
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners (George Mikes Quotes)
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 (George Mikes Quotes)
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game (George Mikes Quotes)
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England (George Mikes Quotes)
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth (George Mikes Quotes)
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