To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips