QUOTES of the week
‘We have the th character of an island nation –independent, forthright, passionate p in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel.’
David Cameron delivers his long-awaited speech on Britain’s relationship with the EU, pledging to hold an in-out referendum. ‘Please don’t go, you are so beautifully crazy!’
German newspaper Bild urges Britain to stay in the EU in the wake of the Prime Minister’s speech. ‘It was probably a classic case of me being too much Army and not enough Prince.’
Prince Harry, reflects on being photographed naked at a party in Las Vegas last year. ‘The English Karenina is too bony.’ Russian newspaper Trud criticises Keira Knightley’s portrayal of Anna Karenina in the latest film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. ‘The is back king making of all ballboys his final appearance #for #timewasting.’ #needed
Charlie Morgan, 17, tweets in which shortly he was before kicked a football by Chelsea’s match Eden Hazard after ‘falling’ on the ball.
‘The star-spangled shammer.’
The Sun’s headline after Beyoncé Knowles was revealed to have mimed the US national anthem at President Obama’s inauguration. ‘You can almost tell someone’s background by their weight.’
Health Minister Anne Soubry says poor people are more likely to be fat than the better-off because junk food is so cheap and freely available.
‘You never know.’
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, responds to a six-year-old pupil who asked: ‘Are you going to be Queen?’ ‘There’s no book giving advice on being married to several wives at the same time so you have to work it out as you go along.’
Former rabbi Philip Sharp, who believes marital union takes place
during sex, on living with six ‘wives’ and their 12 children on a Sussex farm. ‘Don’t look like trash, don’t get drunk, don’t break your heels and stagger about in the wrong clothes at midnight.’
Actress Joanna Lumley, who plays perpetually drunk Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous, issues no-nonsense advice to young women.