Clement Freud Quotes

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• Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
• Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to…
• 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…
• 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,…
• I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
• 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…
• Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
• To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
• I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
• I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips
• I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.
• Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
• I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.
• If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.
• It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
• If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

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