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«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.»
«Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles»
Author: George Mikes
| Keywords:
bottles, continental, Continentals, English people, have sex, hot water, In Hot Water, the English
«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.»
Author: George Mikes
| Keywords:
biological, bore, British, British and, eminent, experiments, originally, quite a, scientists, spoiling, The Eternal
«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»
Author: George Mikes
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Cricket,
Life
| Keywords:
continental, Continentals, cricket, crickets
«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.»
«An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.»
«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
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