Ignorance Quote by Clement Freud

“I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.”

Clement Freud

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I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

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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, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to…

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To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

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If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit

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I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

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If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

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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 salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the…

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There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected…

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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…

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Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there…

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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

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Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

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“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.”

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You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live!

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

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