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Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
In England everything is the other way round.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
Teach foreign how to be alive in England.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
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.
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)