The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
GILES CORENMineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
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My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
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A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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