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

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

Category:
Cats
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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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Other Quotes from
Order
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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

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

Category:
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

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Order

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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. – Eric Butterworth

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Fortune

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Death

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. – Peter Ueberroth

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What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. – Eleanor Powell

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Yearbooks