George Mikes nejznámější citáty
Originál: (en) Britain is the society where the ruling class does not rule, the working class does not work and the middle class is not in the middle.
Zdroj: [Gelb, Norman, The British: a portrait of an indomitable island people, Everest House, 1982, 41, anglicky]
[Ker-Lindsay, James, The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know?, Oxford University Press, 2011, 9780199830251, xii, anglicky]
Originál: (en) Realizing they will never be a world power, the Cypriots have decided to settle for being a world nuisance.
Zdroj: [Leach, Maria, Karel Kvapil, Největší urážky, ETC Publishing, I, Praha, 1997, 80-86006-38-7, Národy, 7]
George Mikes: Citáty anglicky
“In England everything is the other way round.”
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
“Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.”
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
“On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners.”
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
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