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How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide

Book by George Mikes · 6 quotes · England, Funny, Two

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How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide Quotes

“In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.”

“Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.”