Victoria Coren Mitchell

A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Socks and sandals together are absolutely fine, as long as your flares are wide enough to cover your feet.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I don't quite comprehend what Kim Kardashian is, where she came from, or why we talk about her.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I am a big fan of Bournemouth, having enjoyed many happy hours on its sandy beach and crazy golf course.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I do feel incredibly lucky to be making a living at things I love doing.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

London Zoo is amazing. I want to take my child there so that she can feel the awe and wonder I felt…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The best thing about universal free school meals is that they would remove one of the embarrassing signals, easily picked up by…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I grew up near London Zoo, with which I was obsessed. I would lie in bed at night, thinking about the lions…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

If you find it difficult to draw a neat line with an eyeliner pencil, start with a big, thick, wonky line and…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Anger at the wealth gap is no longer about dukes in horse-drawn carriages; it's about vast, tax-dodging corporations. This will not be…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I pay higher premiums because my speeding points spell 'recklessness' to the insurance company, but you can't imagine how risk-averse I am…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

When I was at school, I was forced to play lacrosse, a game in which tiny, rock-hard missiles fly at your head,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Many poker players swear by sleeping a certain number of hours before a tournament, going to the gym in the morning, and…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

When I met my husband, he had never spent more than £10 on a haircut.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I'm really bored by the constant vilifying of people (especially women) for things they didn't say.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

My 'Only Connect' personality isn't put on: it's definitely me.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Given the choice, the majority of children wouldn't go to school at all. The whole thing's ghastly.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I have cared so much and so little about the cars I've owned.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I'm not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they're all great. But nature is context. That which we can't control. Its constant mortality…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I am terrible at doing nothing. I'm not brilliant at doing one thing at a time, either. Ideally, I would fill out…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The idea of MPs texting and emailing through debates makes my gorge rise, as it does when a minicab driver makes phone…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

It is weird, the relationship between people and food. It's always deeper than you think. It always stands for something else.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell