We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Women's handbags are incredibly heavy. You rarely get to pick one up and, when you do, you wonder why anyone carries so much stuff… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the rich and privileged care about, or even bother with, the gift bag? Because they don't need this stuff.… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
