Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

• There’s nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

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• One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

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• One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative – and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

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• Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

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  It’s not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don’t forget things like that.

   

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• I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

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• I enjoy doing nothing.

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• I don’t remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I’ve come across now.

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• But you’ve got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn’t matter as much when you’re young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

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• Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

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• A lot of girls annoy me who go to university – one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I’ve got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

   

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Jeffrey Bernard (12)

Birth:	27th May, 1932
Death:	4th September, 1997
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist

About

Jeffrey Bernard was born in London, England. He was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in The Spectator magazine. He also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He had gained some notoriety when Keith Waterhouse wrote a play based on his life called Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell starring Peter O' Toole. He studied at Pangbourne College. He wrote a weekly column for the Sporting Life but was sacked in October 1971. He became Racing Correspondent for satirical magazine Private Eye. He was given a column in The Spectator in 1975. He wrote several books include: Low Life, Talking Horses, More Low Life (with Andrew Cameron), Jeffrey Bernard Is Still Unwell, and Reach for the Ground.

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