Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees. — Giles Coren Gratification Copy Share Image
I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of… — Giles Coren Angry Copy Share Image
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham. — Giles Coren Fame Copy Share Image
Have you ever been to the countryside? It's so small. And there's nothing to do. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford. — Giles Coren Clever Copy Share Image
My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist. — Giles Coren Dad Copy Share Image
I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that… — Giles Coren Diet Copy Share Image
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn't have to, and my wife and I went out… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens - maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on,… — Giles Coren Cooking Copy Share Image
Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up… — Giles Coren Bottled Copy Share Image
Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant,… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever learnt a difficult lesson. Probably sports betting, which I have lost money on. I did lose… — Giles Coren Apples Copy Share Image
When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie,… — Giles Coren Clothes Copy Share Image
I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than… — Giles Coren Age Copy Share Image
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father's belief that a man without a car… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at… — Giles Coren Dad Copy Share Image
I'm not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line,… — Giles Coren Care Copy Share Image
I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I'm going out for dinner, I sneak… — Giles Coren Dinner Copy Share Image
The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from… — Giles Coren Being Copy Share Image
Being a success in the world, having total control of one's life, is about being able to take or leave things. — Giles Coren Being Copy Share Image
My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I… — Giles Coren Anger Copy Share Image
Hipsters being hipsters, coolness and inaccessibility have overtaken all other concerns. Food no longer matters. Even burgers are too foody. All a… — Giles Coren Food Copy Share Image
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in… — Giles Coren City Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Ancient greece Copy Share Image
So what on Earth there isn't to like about New York? I don't know. But what you do also have is a… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It… — Giles Coren Doctor Copy Share Image
I'm just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have… — Giles Coren Effort Copy Share Image
