Motoring megamouth and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson turns 48 years old today.
Television presenter, author, part-time historian, quiz show panellist, honorary university alumni, would-be Prime Minister and one of the wittiest people in Britain – Jeremy Clarkson has amused and courted controversy in equal measure.
To celebrate the big man’s birthday, we’ve rounded up his greatest ever quotes.
Are there any we’ve missed? Have you got a favourite?
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(whentalking about giving oliver car of the year) “I’d rather eat my own gentleman’s vegetables”
How could everyone forget “How hard can it be?” at which point nearly everything that can go wrong… does.
“I hope that the policemen are armed so they can just shoot the driver.”
“The Honda Insight’s petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3-liter, that, at full chat, makes a noise worse than someone’s crying baby on an airliner … To get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.”