One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to… — A. A. Gill Blue 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 Cybersecurity 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
Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens. — A. A. Gill Letter writing Copy Share Image
The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free… — A. A. Gill Capitalism Copy Share Image
I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter. — A. A. Gill Books Copy Share Image
Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home,… — A. A. Gill Age 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 Beginning Copy Share Image
The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in… — A. A. Gill Appetite Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama is the only popular politician left in the world. He would win an election in any one of the G-20… — A. A. Gill Election Copy Share Image
Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a… — A. A. Gill Day Copy Share Image
When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you… — A. A. Gill Beauty Copy Share Image
The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London… — A. A. Gill London 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… — 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… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The trouble with righting some wrongs is that it makes the remaining ones seem even more unbearable. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family. — 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 Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill Adults Copy Share Image
Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share. — A. A. Gill Generosity Copy Share Image
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what… — A. A. Gill Art Copy Share Image
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they… — A. A. Gill Americans Copy Share Image
The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were… — A. A. Gill Fashion Copy Share Image
A cravat has to be approached with consummate self-confidence and a devilish nonchalance. A cravat has to be grasped by a man… — A. A. Gill Confidence Copy Share Image
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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 Day Copy Share Image
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
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Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the… — 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 Death Copy Share Image
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett,… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone's heart, unless you're Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two… — A. A. Gill Attractive things Copy Share Image
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man… — A. A. Gill Man Copy Share Image
Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast… — 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… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
