George Mikes
George Mikes
George Mikeswas a Hungarian-born British author best known for his humorous commentaries on various countries...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 February 1912
bottles english people
Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles
humorous suffering today
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
dog cat animal
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
dog cat
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
humility virtue
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
queues form englishmen
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
humorous cutting russia
When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".
growing-up educational school
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
travel names disease
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
humorous israel tears
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
humorous israel airports
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
humorous russia attention
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
long queues admire
The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.
humorous israel language
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.