Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes
Born: August 18, 1972
Victoria Coren Mitchell, a writer, presenter, and the first female winner of the European Poker Tour, speaks to the exquisite gamble of the human heart. Her philosophy on love and connection is not sentimental but profoundly pragmatic: she sees relationships as a series of brave, deliberate choices rather than a fairy-tale fate. As the daughter of the late Alan Coren and wife of David Mitchell, she understands that true intimacy is forged in wit, vulnerability, and the quiet courage of staying present. Her quotes resonate because they strip away illusion, offering a bracing, compassionate wisdom for anyone navigating the beautiful, messy terrain of genuine human closeness.
Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes (55)
"The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Weight gain is good because it makes your dresses tight. This is not necessarily classy or flattering, but it means you don't have to iron anything."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"I am a big fan of Bournemouth, having enjoyed many happy hours on its sandy beach and crazy golf course."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Never take your makeup off before bed. Sleep in it. That way, you're all ready to go if a hot postman rings the doorbell early."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"When I was at school, I loved maths and read lots of books and was horrified at the idea of having a boyfriend... I was probably a nerd, but then, it was a negative term."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"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."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Given the choice, I'm sure the majority of children would rather have a packed lunch than school meals."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Given the choice, the majority of children wouldn't go to school at all. The whole thing's ghastly."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"The best thing about universal free school meals is that they would remove one of the embarrassing signals, easily picked up by children's supersensitive antennae, of family poverty."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"The idea of MPs texting and emailing through debates makes my gorge rise, as it does when a minicab driver makes phone calls at the wheel. I'm not paying you to keep in touch with your mates!"
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Anyone who's tuned in to the House of Commons TV coverage knows the benches are often empty. I like that. I'm a big fan of political transparency. It's good for us to know which debates the MPs consider important enough to show up for, and which not."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as a short poem about the weather."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"We all look stupid in patterned tights."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"Socks and sandals together are absolutely fine, as long as your flares are wide enough to cover your feet."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"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."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell"If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting."
— Victoria Coren Mitchell