A biography for Victoria Coren Mitchellhasn’t been written yet.
“They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.”
“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.”
“It is weird, the relationship between people and food. It's always deeper than you think. It always stands for something else.”
“If you find it difficult to draw a neat line with an eyeliner pencil, start with a big, thick, wonky line and then reduce it with eye makeup remover. This is serious advice. I do this every single time I put makeup on.”
“I don't quite comprehend what Kim Kardashian is, where she came from, or why we talk about her.”
“I'm convinced we go to school at the wrong time. I'd have been delighted, aged 12, to get out into the world and earn some money doing something menial.”
“I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.”
“I play poker, a game where there is no edge but the luck of the deal and the skill of the player.”
“I know schools don't have money for everything, but I wish they could all have a couple of violins for kids to try; a couple of cellos, perhaps a bassoon.”
“I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.”
“The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.”
“I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases.”
“When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.”
“I have cared so much and so little about the cars I've owned.”
“London Zoo is amazing. I want to take my child there so that she can feel the awe and wonder I felt (and feel) myself.”
“In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.”
“We all look stupid in patterned tights.”
“The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.”
“When I was at school, I was forced to play lacrosse, a game in which tiny, rock-hard missiles fly at your head, and you must catch them with a stick to avoid a brain haemorrhage. I was regularly punished for not taking part more wholeheartedly.”
“I was a sporadically bossy child.”