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In Europe, clever people show that they are clever by talking about Aristotle, Horace and Montaigne; in England only stupid people try to show how clever they are.
If you are like the English, they think you are funny. If you are not like them, they think you are even funnier.
Actually that is great
In England it is bad manners to be clever or proud of your intelligence. Perhaps you know that two and two make four, but you must never say that two and two make four.
Sayfa 15 - PenguinKitabı okuyor
Look at the word ‘clever’ in any
English dictionary. These dictionaries say ‘clever’
means, ‘quick, intelligent’. These are nice adjectives but the dictionaries are all a little out of date. A modern Englishman uses the word ‘clever’ to mean ‘possibly a bit dishonest, un-English, un-Scottish, un-Welsh’.
Sayfa 15 - PenguinKitabı okuyor
Chapter 17 - Mayfair Playboy "Put the little word de in front of your name. This makes people think that you are important. I knew a man called Leo Rosenberg from Graz who called himself Lionel de Rosenberg and everyone thought he was an Austrian prince."
Tea
But then the British decided to put cold milk and no sugar into it. They made it colourless and tasteless..
Sayfa 11 - PenguinKitabı okuyor
European men and women have sex lives; English men and women have hot-water bottles.