You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.
I enjoy doing nothing. - Jeffrey Bernard
I enjoy doing nothing.
- Jeffrey Bernard
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, co… - Jeffrey Bernard
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, co…
When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink a… - Jeffrey Bernard
When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink a…
The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop. - Jeffrey Bernard
The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.
My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday an… - Jeffrey Bernard
My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday an…
Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working. - Jeffrey Bernard
Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marri… - Jeffrey Bernard
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marri…
What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fasci… - Jeffrey Bernard
What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fasci…
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. - Jeffrey Bernard
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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