Clement Freud Quotes

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

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

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

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 salmon and you'll never be asked again.

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

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.

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 golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

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

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 remain a member of Boodles.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ...