20 Quotes by Tom Parker Bowles

On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

I’d seen more menace in a Care Bear.

My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always come back with some fish or shellfish. And we've always had fresh vegetables from the garden. He is a massively keen gardener, so he grew all our tomatoes, artichokes, asparagus - whenever he wasn't working, he was in the garden.

People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.

London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747.

I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.

My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.

There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

All you care about with your parents is that they are happy, and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment, and I've always adored my stepfather, and he's always been a kind and good and lovely man.