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
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
Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in… — Giles Coren Food Copy Share Image
In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can… — Giles Coren Ability 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 was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn't already do it -… — Giles Coren Dad 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
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 Average 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
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 Hurry 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 General 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
I am afraid that I am actually naturally good with money. My wife thinks it is because I am a Jew, which… — Giles Coren Anti semitic Copy Share Image
But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding… — Giles Coren Never Copy Share Image
I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties. — Giles Coren Always Copy Share Image
The world's most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn't let us win at Monopoly... he wouldn't cut any slack for his children. My… — Giles Coren Children 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
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
My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights… — Giles Coren Day Copy Share Image
My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made… — Giles Coren Dad 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 Car Copy Share Image
Have you ever been to the countryside? It's so small. And there's nothing to do. — Giles Coren Been Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night. He was… — Giles Coren Dad Copy Share Image
My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn't much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I'd… — Giles Coren Battle Copy Share Image
