Words of the week

COMEDY is just funny. It isn’t a cure for anything. It’s not funny because it’s time to be funny. It’s always time to be funny. – Actor Martin Clunes.

I FIND the harder is Queen Elizabeth because everyone knows what she looks like.

– Actress Olivia Colman comparing playing Queen Anne and the present Queen in separate productions.

I DON’T know what to say. I am not that shocked but I am a bit shocked. It’s a bit upsetting and frustrating. I feel like it’s a bit unjust. – Islamic State bride Shamima Begum on the Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship.

THERE’S no feeling like standing up on stage in front of an arena full of strangers, and still being able to hear your dad heckle you. – Comedian Jack Whitehall.

LUXURY is the ease of a T-shirt in a very expensive dress. – Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has just died.

BE under no illusions, we are facing the potential disintegration of the Labour Party and the end of its existence as a serious political force. – Lord Blunkett, a Labour home secretary, after eight MPs formed a breakway Independent Group.

ON a day of division and splits, I have one of my own to announce. Chunk of tooth now missing from my life, ouch, very ouch. – Immigration minister Caroline Nokes.

IN all good conscience, I can no longer justify paying subs to a party which I now regard as institutionally anti-Semitic. – Former Barnsley MP Michael Dugher has quit Labour.

I AM very alarmed, concerned, not to say actually scared of what is actually going to come out of this. – Actor Sir Patrick Stewart on Brexit.

IT was escape again. My way of staying well was by writing. We had so much fun, even when my husband was bonkers. – Crime writer Ann Cleeves.

AT the risk of depressing everyone, I think the last two times I’ve seen David Jason has been at funerals. – Actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, who played Rodney in Only Fools And Horses, rules out a return of the show.