Words of the week

YOU must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. – Environment Secretary Michael Gove, a Brexiteer, on his approach to Britain’s exit from the EU.

I JUST think I do my crying off-camera.

– Ruth Davidson, leader of the Tories in Scotland, on her mental health battles.

I BELIEVE that our best days are ahead of us. – Theresa May on Brexit.

TO dismiss all Brexit voters as racists is simply wrong and utterly counter-productive. – Sir Vince Cable, leader of the Lib Dems.

I DON’T think I’ll ever be a superstar - but that’s fine by me because that’s not my character. – Cyclist Simon Yates after winning the Vuelta a Espana.

I’M still Nile, the lad from Leeds, and I’ll still get butterflies when I get on the plane in six weeks’ time. – Nile Wilson after being selected for the World Gymnastics Championships.

I WAS born to be a show-off. – Pop singer Sir Rod Stewart.

THERE’S an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car. – Comedy writer Denis Norden, who has died aged 96.

POLITICAL correctness has gone mad. Diversity quotas are an insult. – TV’s Alan Titchmarsh.

I IMMEDIATELY felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together. – The Duchess of Sussex on her work with survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.

I ONLY have 30 seconds but I wrote this 40 years

ago. – Happy Days star Henry Winkler on accepting an Emmy award. He was first nominated for an Emmy 42 years ago.

WHEN I read the news on Saturday night, my mum said ‘You look a little too brown’. – BBC newsreader Kate Silverton plans to ease up on the fake tan for Strictly Come Dancing.

OLD ratbag. – Broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson’s description of Labour MP Dennis Skinner who in the 1970s objected to a major revamp of the Parkinson TV show.

POLITICS is a laboratory for mental health challenges. – Alastair Campbell, who was Tony Blair’s spin doctor.