Words of the week

WE will try to do better in future. – Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary after the cancellation of flights due to pilot holidays.

MORE people living longer better lives with cancer is my birthday pledge.

– Former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell, 70, who has been diagnosed with brain cancer.

CHOOSE a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Careers advice from former footballer Michael Owen.

WITHOUT exception, I have been longing to leave every single party I’ve ever been to from the second I’ve arrived. – Dawn French.

THERE’S a section on how to deal with a dead body: if your cooking kills anyone. – TV’s Kirstie Allsopp on the contents of a cookbook written by her great, great grandmother.

FOR years I thought I was fat and ugly. I’m not. And I won’t let anyone say Iam.– Strictly Come Dancing contestant Susan Calman.

THERE is a reason comedians lean towards children’s books - we are children. We like silly. – Comedienne Miranda Hart.

AS leader of the third UK party, my job is to be the alternative prime minister. – Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable whose party has just 12 MPs.

DOOMFUL donkey. – Political commentator Quentin Letts’s description of Sir Vince Cable.

EVERYONE says ‘You’re so handsome’, and I’ve begun to believe it. – Giorgio Armani, fashion legend.

WE are a nest of singing birds. – Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, denying there was a Cabinet split over Europe.

IF it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. – President Donald Trump.

I DON’T really like sweet things.

– This admission by Prue Leith, a judge on The Great British Bake-Off, has astonished some viewers.

I FEEL about England right now that it’s like a family picnic on a railway track - What’s that hooting noise? Owls? – Writer Salman Rushdie on Brexit.