“Trojan is giving away Magnum large condoms (do you think they were named after a large wooden animal inside which thousands of little men were hiding, ready to jump out and ruin your life?)” — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“I told them this was their language, this English, this most marvellous and expressive cloak of meaning and imagination. This great, exclamatory, illuminating song,… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Accent is the last great redoubt of prejudice. The race relations industry, that inquisition of fairness and sensitivity, doesn't protect against discrimination by funny… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows exactly where the first chickens were domesticated – India, China, Thailand, Vietnam – somewhere around 10,000 years ago, which is to say… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It's a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman’s ear for a tune. So when, at an official… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Down a winding cobbled street from the church trips the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, the most evocative and strangely dramatic of all morris dances,… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Trojan is giving away Magnum large condoms (do you think they were named after a large wooden animal inside which thousands of little men… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
“There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can’t make worse.” — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
