Denis Norden

Denis Mostyn Norden, CBE (6 February 1922 - 19 September 2018) was an English comedy writer and television presenter.

You can't have your Kayak and heat it

 * He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.


 * What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

Quoted in My Music by Steve Race

 * A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.


 * Smetana certainly knew which side his bride was bartered.