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.
Jeffrey Bernard
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
Jeffrey Bernard
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.
Jeffrey Bernard
I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
Jeffrey Bernard
I enjoy doing nothing.
Jeffrey Bernard
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.
Jeffrey Bernard
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.
Jeffrey Bernard
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Jeffrey Bernard
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.
Jeffrey Bernard
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Jeffrey Bernard
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.
Jeffrey Bernard
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard
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