Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I've always liked playing with makeup. It's fun. I love going places and getting dressed up.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

There are no rules when it comes to makeup!

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.

I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.