On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners. – 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
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. – George Mikes
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, Oh, you might want to read In Cold Blood because theyre talking about you for Capote, but the scripts with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment. So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. – Toby Jones