You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – 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
On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners. – George Mikes
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai Stevenson