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Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles. - George Mikes
Attribution: George Mikes (1912–1987), Hungarian-born British humorist. How To Be An Alien, ch. 1, sct. 6 (1946). thirty years later, Mikes referred to this notorious pronouncement: “Things have progressed. Not on the continent, where people still have sex lives; but they have progressed here because the English now have electric blankets. It’s a pity that electricity so often fails in this country.” (How To Be Decadent, 1977).

Categories: England And The English, Humorist, Sex

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