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

In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

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

The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

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

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.