QUOTES of the week

‘My New Year’s Resolution 2020: see the world, meet new people, expand my horizons. My New Year’s resolution 2021: really hoping

I can get to Robert

Dyas at some point.’

TV presenter Richard Osman sets the bar lower with his

plans for this year.

‘Anyone who doesn’t wear their mask, they have blood on their hands.’

Professor Hugh Mongomery, who works in intensive care at the Whittington Hospital in North London, as Covid cases continue to rise.

‘I promised I would take Rotherham out of the Second Division and I did. I took them in the Third.’

Former football manager Tommy Docherty, who died last week aged 92, with a typically humorous quip.

‘I stuck on a sexy blonde wig, rolled up the sides and created an almost Spitting Image-type Thatcher.’ Lesley-Anne Down who plays the former PM in a new US drama.

‘I want you to see that this is a cakeist treaty.’

Boris Johnson hails his Brexit trade deal after critics previously claimed he was trying to have his cake and eat it.

‘It just doesn’t happen to people like me. I feel I may be lowering the tone.’

Actress Sheila Hancock who received a damehood in the New Year honours.

‘In those days, if your mother says you’re going to do something, you do it and that’s how I came to be here.’ Kay White, 93, the country’s oldest postmistress, who is retiring after 80 years of service.

‘Hang in there. Today is the tomorrow you were so worried about yesterday. Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.’

Sir Anthony Hopkins reflects on 45 years of sobriety in a message of hope to people suffering in the pandemic.