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
humorous suffering today
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
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".
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.
humorous israel language
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
humorous japan united-states
Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.
humorous japan resent
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
humorous america people
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.
humorous rights japan
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
humorous soul england
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
humorous israel insane
'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'