I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees. — Giles Coren Gratification 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
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
My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good. — Giles Coren 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
I'm not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food. — 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
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
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
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
Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Ask a footballer what they can cook and they always say spaghetti. It is what you reach for when there is nothing… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything… — Giles Coren 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
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
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
We've got rid of subeditors because we don't need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They… — Giles Coren Job 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
Have you ever been to the countryside? It's so small. And there's nothing to do. — Giles Coren 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding… — Giles Coren 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
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
World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being… — Giles Coren Being Copy Share Image
My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every… — Giles Coren Best friend Copy Share Image
I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a… — Giles Coren Career Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection. We built walls around them with slits through which to fire… — Giles Coren Beginning Copy Share Image
