QUOTES of the week

‘God I love Mrs Queen.’ Jeremy Clarkson tweets after Her Majesty’s address to the nation.

‘I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high, o’er vale and hill/ When all at once I saw a drone/ Controlled by Derbyshire’s Old Bill./ I spied no folk. I had no cough./ I did no harm that I could see./ Yet still it blared, “Hey you! Sod off!”/ So much for England being free.’

Times reader Stephen Gold is inspired by Wordsworth in his condemnation of heavyhanded police tactics.

‘These people are heroes of the moment – the 2020 equivalent of the Spitfire pilots of 1940.’

Patient Hylton Murray-Philipson as he leaves Leicester Royal Infirmary after beating the virus.

‘So now we’ve got to social-distance from tigers? How many sunbathing meatheads feel invincible enough to break that rule?’

Twitter user after it was revealed that six tigers are showing coronavirus symptoms and one has tested positive.

‘I don’t think we should shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.’ US expert Anthony Fauci on avoiding infections even after the crisis is over.

‘I felt unfair getting dressed up while my colleagues were laying their lives on the front line.’

Miss England Bhasha Mukherjee who is returning to her job as an NHS respiratory specialist.

‘I thought of it like Ocean’s Eleven or Mission: Impossible, but with very middle-class people in Wiltshire. And instead of abseiling down skyscrapers they had encyclopedias.

Screenwriter James Graham, whose TV drama Quiz is about the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating scandal.

‘I kicked him out. You didn’t want somebody in your bed quoting Shakespeare.’ Honor Blackman, who has died aged 94, on how she once rejected the advances of Richard Burton.