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Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone. - A. A. Gill
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#Phone Call
#Phone
#Women
Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie. - A. A. Gill
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A cravat has to be approached with consummate self-confidence and a devilish nonchalance. A cravat has to be grasped by a man who knows how to treat a cravat. - A. A. Gill
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#Knows
#Man
#Treat
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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. - A. A. Gill
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#Grey
#Love
#Romantic
#Sober
One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in. - A. A. Gill
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#Buildings
#Easy
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#Up
Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations. - A. A. Gill
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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. - A. A. Gill
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Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense. - A. A. Gill
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#Poetry
#Sense
#Songs
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point. - A. A. Gill
#History
#Love
#Repetition
#Tradition
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. - A. A. Gill
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#Restaurant
#Rules
#Smile
#Song
When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had double firsts from Oxford or Cambridge, they were all bright as new pins. - A. A. Gill
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#Double
#New
#People
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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. - A. A. Gill
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#Care
#Gift
#Love
#Rich
The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows. - A. A. Gill
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#Next
#Often
#Pleasure
#Skin
My only piece of advice is that all of you consider every single text and Snapchat that you ever make as also being shared with your partner, because they all check your phones all the time - trust me on this one. - A. A. Gill
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#Me
#Partner
#Time
#Trust
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. - A. A. Gill
#Agree
#Man
#Marriage
#Naked
#War
A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and exotic attire attracted the French bon hommes, who were wearing formal ruffs, and who immediately took to the simple and relaxed military cloth tied at the neck. - A. A. Gill
#Formal
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#Simple
#Strange
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People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't. - A. A. Gill
#Boredom
#Day
#Me
#One Day
#People
Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs. - A. A. Gill
#Age
#Home
#Middle
#Past
#Tough
Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins. - A. A. Gill
#Comedy
#Irony
#Man
#Suit
#Will
Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people. - A. A. Gill
#Doing
#Good Man
#Good
#Learning
#Man
#People
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity. - A. A. Gill
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#Coming
#French
#Happy
#Never
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck. - A. A. Gill
#Ambition
#Character
#Destiny
#He
#Shadow
Other people's traditions look charming and decorative and exotic. They're nice places to visit on holiday, but you wouldn't want to live with one. - A. A. Gill
#Charming
#Live
#Look
#Nice
#People
I'm terribly prone to anxiety. I get very depressed and I get very anxious and my anxiety is almost always about my children. - A. A. Gill
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#Anxiety
#Children
#Get
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. - A. A. Gill
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#Good
#Life
#Right
#Timing
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. - A. A. Gill
#City
#Fire
#Ghosts
#Great
#People
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family. - A. A. Gill
#Dinner
#Family
#Food
#People
#Share
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing. - A. A. Gill
#Better
#Everything
#Experience
#Grammar
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. - A. A. Gill
#Boss
#Father
#Good Citizen
#Good
#Man
Shorts are silly. Men in shorts are silly men. And silly is the very worst thing a man can be. - A. A. Gill
#Man
#Men
#Shorts
#Silly
#Worst Thing
#Worst
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