Admire Quote by George Mikes Download Open image “The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.” — George Mikes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admire Long Queues Ready
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully Copy Share Image
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I think it's important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our… — Toni Duggan Copy Share Image
When people come to see you, they know what you do. That's what they want. They want it to be quite English; they don't… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Before you are admitted to British citizenship you are not even considered a natural human being. I looked up the word natural (na’tural) in… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“In the last century, when a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Mr S. got angry. ‘Yes, I do have a son. He’s a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.’ I couldn’t ask which prison he was in,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“I have been told that my above-described theory is all wrong and is only due to my Central European conceit, because the English do… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams? — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself...… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
