141 Quotes by A. A. Gill

Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.

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 around all day.

The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that's what they should concentrate on being.

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. If they wanted it, they could afford to buy it, without blinking. But they love the gift bag, beyond reason.

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie.