Quotes by Victoria Coren Mitchell

We all look stupid in patterned tights.

It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

I can be a bit weird, cross when I'm cross, tired when I'm tired, and hungry when I'm hungry.

I'd like to be more decisive. I can take an hour to choose between two brands of washing powder in the supermarket.

I'm familiar with that magical mindset during sporting competition where one feels completely zoned in on what's happening. There are occasional nights in poker when the mists have cleared, and I just know what my opponents' cards are. Everything at the table is slow, loud, and easy. The rest of the world is silent.

I was a sporadically bossy child.

I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

Anger at the wealth gap is no longer about dukes in horse-drawn carriages; it's about vast, tax-dodging corporations. This will not be assuaged by seeing the royal family claiming to live like we do. If anything, that will make us angrier.