QUOTES of the week

‘I feel shame and embarrassment; shame as a human being, as a citizen and as an agent of the state, embarrassment as president of the Family Division that I can do no more for X.’

Angry senior judge Sir James Munby after being told that a suicidal 17-year-old girl could not be given a place at a suitable NHS mental health unit.

‘I don’t think he’s a good actor but he’s very good at jumping.’

Actor Robert Hardy, who died on Thursday, clearly didn’t think much of Daniel Craig’s portrayal of James Bond.

‘There was the same literalism, the same passionate intensity, the same apocalyptic violence as now.’

Historian David Starkey describing Henry VIII’s break with Rome as ‘Tudor Brexit’.

‘It’s torture. I’m in a bad mood two hours before, I’m in a bad mood while I’m doing it, I’m in a bad mood at the end because I have to schedule the next class.’ Hollywood actress Sofia Vergara reveals that she hates fitness classes – because of her ‘gigantic’ breasts.

‘It’s Yorkshire Day! Celebrate by determinedly betraying no emotions about it whatsoever.’

Writer Gaby Hinsliff.

‘I have just been told I can’t buy cigarettes, unless I’ve got ID. I am 44. Has the world gone mad?’

Liam Gallagher of Oasis fame finds a new subject to fume about.

‘A proper teary moment.’ Emotional Prince William after The Last Post was played at the Menin Gate on Sunday to commemorate the battle of Passchendaele.

‘It is beyond calculation and beyond rationality.’

Famously thrifty Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger can’t believe the £199million fee paid by French club PSG for Neymar, left.