Jeffrey Bernard
Jeffrey Bernard
Jeffrey Bernard /bərˈnɑːrd/was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in The Spectator magazine, and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London's Soho district. He was later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 May 1932
horse gambling way
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
grateful writing would-be
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.
drinking addiction impossible
The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.
gambling three legends
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.
boys wake-up would-be
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 and fornicate.
intelligent thinking people
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 fascism to think like that.
kids people hatred
I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
alternatives journalism thinkable
Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
beautiful blue clouds
They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?
stars self mind
Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.
jobs couple people
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
doing-nothing enjoy
I enjoy doing nothing.
want matter comfort
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.
names drunk people
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.