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A criminal may improve and be...

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

George Mikes 80 quotes

To be extravagant you need mo...

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

George Mikes 80 quotes

Nobody uses his car in New Yo...

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

George Mikes 80 quotes

People on the Continent eithe...

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

George Mikes 80 quotes

A dog will flatter you but yo...

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

George Mikes 80 quotes

The English have no soul; the...

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

George Mikes 80 quotes

You can keep a dog: but it is...

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

George Mikes 80 quotes

The Art of Conversation could...

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

George Mikes 80 quotes

It is often said that the Jap...

It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.

George Mikes 80 quotes

The English take everything w...

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 80 quotes

Japan suffered terribly from ...

Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

George Mikes 80 quotes

The British suffer from a mos...

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

George Mikes 80 quotes

There are many non-intellectu...

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

George Mikes 80 quotes

To have created a Welfare Sta...

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

George Mikes 80 quotes

Long before the word Zionism ...

Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own.

George Mikes 80 quotes

Although the rudiments of sno...

Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

George Mikes 80 quotes

You must not refuse any addit...

You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

George Mikes 80 quotes

They (Americans) have their n...

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 80 quotes

Australians are decent people...

Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

George Mikes 80 quotes

Japan is, you often feel, an ...

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

George Mikes 80 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....