“Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just ...” — Hamish Bowles Quote

“Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.”

“As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.”

“My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.”

“In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.”

“If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.”

“I didn't want to stay in America, because the level in Europe is much higher.”