Words of the week

BRITAIN will succeed whatever happens. – Transport Secretary Chris Grayling on Brexit.

THE disruption for Britain could be, you know, quite serious. – Hillary Clinton on the prospect of a no-deal Brexit.

THIS is the politics of Al Capone. This is

extortion. – Tory peer and former Cabinet Minister Lord Forsyth on the “divorce bill” demands by the EU. WE live in a world riven by conflict, spurred on by ego and neo-imperial ambition. – Jeremy Corbyn.

I DON’T miss the nastiness of social

media. – Former Labour MP Dame Anne Begg’s response when asked what she missed about Parliament.

READERS and writers, it’s all

downhill from now. – Author George Saunders after winning the Booker Prize with his debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo. YES, I’m flawed, but my intentions are good, and I will never be perfect, but I will continue to evolve toward that. – Jane Fonda.

IT’S the most fun you could have with your

clothes on! – Amateur rider David Maxwell, 39, after winning Wetherby’s Bobby Renton Chase on his own horse Ballotin. ONE of the greatest causes of stress in the world was the invention of the shower. – Tory MP Tim Loughton who begins each day with an hour-long session in the bath.

YOU should come into space with

me. – Actor Brian Blessed, who hopes to blast into space next year, issues an invitation to the Duchess of Cornwall. I AM ashamed to say that I go to the theatre maybe once every 10 years. I know that makes me a disgrace as an actor and that I should go and should love it, but I can’t bear it. – Hugh Grant.

I’M being very, very nice, but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty. – President Donald Trump’s warning to Republican Senator John McCain, who questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in US foreign policy. THERE is a man in the White House who lies consistently and pathologically and is an open and avowed racist, and misogynist, and sexual predator. – Actor Jason Isaacs attacks President Trump.