THE English are so nice
so awfully nice
they are the nicest people in the
world.
And what’s
more, they’re very nice about being nice
about your being nice as
well!
If you’re not
nice they soon make you feel it.
Americans and French and Germans and so on
they’re all very
well
but they’re not
really nice, you know.
They’re not nice in our sense of the word, are
they now?
That’s why one doesn’t have to take them
seriously.
We must
be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally.
But it doesn’t really matter
what you say to them,
they don’t really understand
you can just say anything to
them:
be nice, you
know, just nice
but
you must never take them seriously, they wouldn’t
understand,
just be
nice, you know! oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take
advantage
but nice
enough, just nice enough
to let them feel they’re not quite as nice as
they might be.