A. A. Gill Quotes

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A. A. Gill

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 28, 1954

This is the trouble with cheating: there are no acceptable rules, or laws. It could be a smile, or dancing to a song that you considered to be indefinably 'ours'. It can feel like cheating to go to a restaurant that you used to go to with someone else. Keeping photographs of exes can infuriate, like retrospective cheating.

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We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.

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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.

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So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

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London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren's churches and ushered in the Georgian city.

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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.

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

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

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The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

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Frightened is the natural state for all men.

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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.

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You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more he's likely to get re-elected.

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

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There are five great ages of man - five moments when you need to reevaluate everything, clear out the cupboard and the wardrobe, and most importantly, your head. They are 13, 20, 30, 40 and 60. All men need to know this.

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The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

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Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

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Clothes maketh the man. They don't make you some other man.

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I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable.

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I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.

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Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

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