Quotes by George Mikes

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‘I don’t say a Zionist must be insane,’ said President Weizmann, ‘but it helps if he is.’

Funny

Humorous

Israel

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

Country

Couple

Funny

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Criminals

May

Way

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Cat

Dog

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

Behaviour

Crowds

Pushing

A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

Funny

Humorous

Sports

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul – that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

Believe

Funny

Humor

American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare’s time the world’s greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world’s most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

Drama

Funny

Humorous

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

Englishmen

Form

Queues

Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

Funny

Girl

Humor

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Achievement

Admire

Aggressive

Airports

America

Animal

Art

Average

Baseball

Beer

Behaviour

Believe

Book

Boys

Brave

Buying

Cat

Clever

Cooking

Country

Couple

Cricket Match

Criminals

Crowds

Cutting

Dirty

Disease

Dog

Drama

Dream

Educational

Egypt

England

Englishmen

Exquisite

Firsts

Food

Foreigners

Form

Funny

Gay

Girl

Goes On

Greek

Groups

Growing Up

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Hero

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Quotes by George Mikes

George Mikes

‘I don’t say a Zionist must be insane,’ said President Weizmann, ‘but it helps if he is.’

A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul – that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare’s time the world’s greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world’s most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

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