Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
"George Mikes" was a Hungarian-born British author best known for his humorous commentaries on various countries.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More George Mikes on Wikipedia.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.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
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