Quotes by A. A. Gill

A. A. Gill

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won’t care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don’t believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Believe

Country

Mean

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo’s compliment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise.

Compliment

Lobster

Promise

All my life I’ve been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I’ve ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Men

Philosophy

War

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I’m instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I’ve come up with a fantastic little device which I’ll call a box of matches.

Book

Culture

Next Week

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

Enemy

Looks

Television

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters’ parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don’t actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

America

Character

Drama

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Dull

Facts

People

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back

Beach

Men

Water

I don’t know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

Children

Long

Television

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.

Believe

Cards

Watches

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America

Art

Bankers

Beach

Believe

Book

Cards

Character

Cheating

Children

Compliment

Country

Culture

Death

Directors

Dirty

Drama

Dull

Enemy

Facts

Father

Fiction

Funny

Giving

Happy Life

History

Ideas

Important Choices

Insanity

Knowledge

Life

Lobster

Long

Looks

Lying

Mean

Memories

Men

Negative

Next Week

Past

People

Philosophy

Promise

Sex

Television

War

Watches

Water

Way

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Quotes by A. A. Gill

A. A. Gill

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo’s compliment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise.

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters’ parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don’t actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back

I don’t know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.

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