"Remember that those five hundred words an average……" — George Mikes
"Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either."
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George Mikes
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71 Quotes by George Mikes
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I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that…
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
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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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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent…
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To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
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Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease -…
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view…
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Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest…
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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never…
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