141 Quotes by A. A. Gill

Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.

The London police have discovered that the best way to neuter demonstrations is not to move everyone on, or disperse troublemakers, but hold them close, cordon them into a diminishing space for hours and hours, as a sort of arbitrary al fresco arrest.

Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

The answer is that if God exists, he doesn't seem to mind if you believe in him or not.

The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.