Victoria Coren Mitchell

Makeup is only fun if it's occasional and capricious - just like it's a treat to have an empty day ahead, but…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

My speeding offences (whether caught or not) are always in situations where the speed limit is 30, but I think it's 40.…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I dreamed of growing up and becoming a zookeeper.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I know schools don't have money for everything, but I wish they could all have a couple of violins for kids to…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Given the choice, I'm sure the majority of children would rather have a packed lunch than school meals.

— 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

Moisturise, moisturise, moisturise... is the motto of people who are in the business of selling moisturisers. Your body is already 60% water.…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Weight gain is good because it makes your dresses tight. This is not necessarily classy or flattering, but it means you don't…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I never wanted poker to be a job. That's partly because I love it, and it's fun, and I didn't want it…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The phrase 'working mum' makes me nervous.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Anyone who's tuned in to the House of Commons TV coverage knows the benches are often empty. I like that. I'm 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 was a sporadically bossy child.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Pudding is not a human right.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

It may be vain to care too much how you look, but it is impolite to care too little. You do a…

— 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

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

— 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