“The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.”
“VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant.”
“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”
“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
“I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.”
“forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums”