Best George Mikes Sayings
- Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better. Better
- 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… Clubs
- 'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.' Helping
- Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. Bad
- The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word… All
- Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It… Acknowledged
- The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation. Beings
- Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States. Feel
- 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… Any
- Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow. Car
- A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He… Bolshevik
- 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… Aggressive
- In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. Attention
- 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… Behaviour
- 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. English
- On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. Continent
- 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… Clearly
- Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. Continentals
- 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… Authors
- Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false. Always False
- Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles. Bottles