Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
Jeffrey Bernard

Between, Grateful, Tell

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
Jeffrey Bernard

Drunk, Forget, Boring

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
Jeffrey Bernard

School, Girl, Leaving

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
Jeffrey Bernard

Job, Lives, Simply

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.
Jeffrey Bernard

Money, Young, Matter

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
Jeffrey Bernard

Remember, Hatred, Kids

I enjoy doing nothing.
Jeffrey Bernard

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Jeffrey Bernard

Boring, Down, Here

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard

Mean, Getting, Word

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Jeffrey Bernard

Him, Stop, Horse

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.
Jeffrey Bernard

Good, Cricket, Reason

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard

Nothing, Lying, Champagne

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 27, 1932

Died: September 4, 1997

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