“I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting ...” — Victoria Coren Mitchell Quote

“I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.”

“Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don't know the reason. Some people say it's to do with keeping rain out of monkeys' eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.”

“Being bored by clothes shopping feels smart and intellectual: 'Ooh, get me, insufficiently entertained by racks of skinny jeans; my mind is on higher things.'”

“I was very good in all the maths and sciences.”

“I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.”

“The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.”