"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."

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Source : George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.23, Penguin UK

George Mikes

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“Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.”
“Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.”
“SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.”
“I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.”
“All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.”

Source : Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.72
“I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.”
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

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