THEY SAID WHAT?

“I’ve seen one coronation, and been the recipient in the other, which is pretty remarkable”

- The Queen.

“I write a commentary, and feel it’s finished, then go back over it the next day and find it full of infelicities, clumsiness and redundancies. If I thought I was turning in substandard work, that would stop me” - Broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough adding, however, that the thought of not working fills him with dread.

“I’d like to have the whole system reformed. It’s a bad system, but as long as it’s there, we’ve got to make it work” - Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, when asked why he is using the House of Lords, which he opposes, to fight Brexit.

“The suicide-inducing Scottish ditty” - Heiress Jemima Goldsmith’s, above, view of Auld Lang Syne, after describing New Year’s Eve as “the worst night of the year”.

“Knife crime and knife culture is almost now a permanent feature of some young people’s lives in most of our major cities” - David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, and a former prison governor on the knife attack deaths in London over the New Year period.

“I’m delusionally fascinated by myself. I love the sound of my own voice. If you don’t feel like that, fake it until you believe it. If you like yourself, it’s the sexiest thing in the world” - Gene Simmons, musician and

Kiss frontman.