An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes – [Order]


Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
George Mikes – [Sex]


The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
George Mikes – [Tea]