100 Quotes by David Linley

Food and wine are my extravagances.

I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

I love partridge and duck casseroles, and have been known to hunt my own game. It's important to eat off the land where possible.

Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.

I love Burgundy but my favourite is a Bordeaux - Chateau Leoville-Barton.

Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a media room does not.

Life, work, money - everything is such a battle. It's just nice to sit down at home, look at one thing, and think, 'Hmmm. A man made that.'

I would prefer to be called David Linley. No one refers to me as Lord Linley in London. It's an American thing.

My design teachers were teaching us how to mass-manufacture; how to create something, but it's not lasting - it's always about the next trend, it's the next thing.