English are 'pathologically violent' and 10 other best-selling quotes

A new book calling the English "unrestrained wild beasts who eat food so greasy it needs detergent," has become a best-seller.

The 188-page rant was written by João Magueijo, a Portuguese physics professor who lives and works in London, but criticises the English for everything from their eating and drinking habits to their hygiene standards.

His book, Bifes Mal Passados (Undercooked Beef), has sold over 20,000 copies in Portugal, but he has no plans for an English translation. He told the Sunday Times "I do not fear any backlash. I trust the British sense of humour."

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Here are some of his most scathing quotes :

On their general behaviour:

England is "one of the most rigid and rotten societies in Europe, possibly the world."

"I have never met such a group of animals [...] English culture is pathologically violent."

On the drinking culture:

"In England, real men have to drink like sponges, eat like skeletons and throw up everything at the end of the evening."

On sex:

"Oral sex is not considered a sexual act among the English. It is something a woman can perform on a stranger whose name she doesn't even know [...] No one cares."

On their cleaning habits:

"When you visit English homes, or the toilets at schools or in student lodgings, they are all so disgusting that even my grandmother's poultry cage is cleaner."

On the class system:

“People of different classes don't talk to each other, or if they do they don't understand each other. It's reciprocal fear and hate.”

On the North:

Blackpool hospital A&E department "[looks] like a field hospital after battle".

"People in the north are incredibly obese, men and women with three-metre waists made of fat and lard."

He does like the English though ... kind of:

"I love the tolerance, the creativity and the madness of the people."

"I am thankful to England for the working climate I was offered. But then there is all the rest. "