When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

Jeffrey Bernard (27 May 1932 – 4 September 1997) was a British journalist best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in the Spectator magazine and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. [citation needed]
Though married four times he often remarked only half in jest that alcohol was the other woman. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London's Soho district.

Jeffrey Bernard (27 May 1932 – 4 September 1997) was a British journalist best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in the Spectator magazine and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He was later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.