George Mikes Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, America

• A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

  George Mikes

  Behaviour, Crowds, Pushing

• The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

  George Mikes

  Language, Humour, Exquisite

• They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Baseball, Strong

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

• Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  George Mikes (1969). “The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow”

• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Vocabulary, Average, Use

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