George Mikes - People Quotes

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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

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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.

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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.

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Table manners are usually quite senseless all the world over. The rules are created by a small class of people who ridicule others for eating differently.

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Everybody can write; even among professional writers the percentage of those who can write is as high as 12.37. Everybody can write but only a few people can read and that makes the job a shade more difficult.

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Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

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Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

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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.

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