Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
George Mikes
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
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.