Quote by George Mikes
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. – George Mikes

Category:
Knowledge
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You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes

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Cats
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Other Quotes from
Order
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There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline. – Michel de Montaigne

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Order

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time. – Salvatore Satta

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Order

Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

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Order

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. – Will Durant

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Order

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In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. – Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989

Category:
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia

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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. – Gene Tierney

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