Women's handbags are incredibly heavy. You rarely get to pick one up and, when you do, you wonder why anyone carries so… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back. — 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, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a… — A. A. Gill Copy Share
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
