72 Quotes by Alexander Armstrong

I once started tennis lessons and turned some poor man grey overnight. Now I feign injuries when I'm asked for a game.

My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch.

I always think that in nearly every instance things that turn ugly, they almost invariably do so because of a misunderstanding, or because of poor communication.

I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic so acutely.

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

The Arctic as a lesser-known region of the world was the ideal destination - beautiful, mysterious, lethal, enchanting and, crucially, populated with extraordinary death-defying communities who somehow manage to thrive there.

I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only by the occasional Berghaus-clad James Cracknell type striding manfully out of the spindrift.

I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages of 11 to 13, after prep school and before I went to the Durham School. Edinburgh's my favourite city in the whole world. I don't think there's anywhere that comes close to it.

Well I am breaking the omerta and telling the world about how the Arctic is surprisingly full of bustling conurbations and comfy hotels so no explorer will ever speak to me again.