141 Quotes by A. A. Gill

All people from small islands dance funny.

You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals, delays, indecisions, tomorrows and long lunches.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

Shorts are silly. Men in shorts are silly men. And silly is the very worst thing a man can be.

The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were moved from lateral to vertical.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.