"Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues,……" — George Mikes
"Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false."
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71 Quotes by George Mikes
George Mikes has 71 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that…
- A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
- You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
- The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent…
- To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
- Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
- Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease -…
- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
- THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
- In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view…
- Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language.…
- Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest…
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