Quotes of the week
“I can’t help anyone in Orlando, but I can be extra f ***ing gay today.” After the initial shock of the Orlando shooting, Panti Bliss responds defiantly. “She was a woman just doing her normal day’s work, as Veronica was, and taken down.” Veronica Guerin’s widower, Graham Turley, offers condolences to the husband of Jo Cox, the British Labour MP who was killed in a shocking act of violence last Thursday. “We’ve lost a great star. She had a big heart and people are going to be very, very sad at what has happened.” British Prime Minister David Cameron on Jo Cox’s murder. “Life is a journey and our sense of belonging is what supports us.” Fr Brendan McBride spoke on how the kindness of the Irish community helped the bereaved through a difficult time, in a special sermon commemorating the first anniversary of the Berkeley tragedy. “Farage you’re a fraud! You’re not a fisherman’s friend.” Bob Geldof shouting from the board of an ‘in’ boat to Nigel Farage on an ‘out’ boat in what can only be described as peak Brexit as a special flotilla clashed on the Thames. “This is the difference between Irish fans and England fans, we change the wheel of a car.” Irish fans who, amid the revelry in France, stopped to change an elderly couple’s tyre. “I was named before I was even interviewed and for me that was like being hung out like live bait.” Sir Cliff Richard after being told he would not face charges over allegations that he sexually abused boys. “I hate a plant because it is repulsively ugly, and that’s the begonia. Don’t tell me that anybody likes begonias” TV gardener Monty Don. “Women who dress well and normally, and are rather beautiful in life, suddenly look like ... I don’t know what they are trying to do half-naked. It is very sexist, and I don’t think it is to be admired.” Actor Jonathan Pryce on actresses who bare their flesh on the red carpet. “Never mind the Russian Nazis, our idiots were confronting the French police first.” Writer Frederick Forsyth calls for harsh penalties for English football hooligans. “I can’t imagine how you build a career, never mind an empire, on that.” Sex and The City star Kim Cattrall does not understand the Kardashian appeal. “The idea of living your life on camera 24 hours a day, and maintaining that look, which is never anything other than flawless. I couldn’t do it, and I wouldn’t want to.” TV presenter Susanna Reid on the Kardashians. “When I first went to America, they thought I was Australian and I got quite insulted by that. So I started being terribly sort of you know English, and talking rather posh.” Actor Philip Glenister. “I wasn’t exactly the Great Train Robber. I was an idiot. I kept getting nicked. I broke into one shop and had my thumb out of the gloves. That is how clever I was. I didn’t realise it was the fingerprints they got you on.” Rock star Ozzy Osbourne on his misspent youth in Birmingham. “Ladies and gentlemen, I am what is left of Dick Van Dyke.” The former Hollywood song and dance man, now 90, introduces himself during a speech in Los Angeles. “An awful terror group of their own.” Piers Morgan’s description of the US National Rifle Association, the principal pro-gun lobby group in America.