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“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)

“Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.”

George Mikes

How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)

“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 labour bore fruit.”

George Mikes

How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)

“When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England.”

George Mikes

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.”

George Mikes

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.”

George Mikes

How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)

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