Words of the week

SHE has embodied the spirit of dignity, duty, and patriotism that beats proudly in every British heart. – President Donald Trump pays tribute to the Queen during this week’s state visit.

IT is with humility and pleasure, on behalf of the entire country indeed the whole free world - that I say to you all, thank you. – The Queen’s message to D-Day veterans.

MY darling this is a very difficult letter for me to write. – Theresa May read a letter found in the pocket of Captain Norman Skinner, written to his wife Gladys on June 3, 1944. He landed on Normandy’s Sword Beach on D-Day but was killed the following day.

I DON’T see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that. I have not really done anything. – Schoolgirl climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16.

IT’S hard to think of myself as a legend. For me,

I’m just a normal lad from Liverpool whose dreams just come true.

– Defender Trent Alexander-Arnold on Liverpool’s Champions League triumph.

IF I get in, we’ll come out, deal or no deal, on October 31. – Tory leadership candidate Boris Johnson.

I LIKE to prove people wrong. – Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, one of Mr Johnson’s rivals.

I THINK he has made peace with his game – Cricket commentator Mike Atherton on the batting of England’s Joe Root.

LONG after I’ve retired from elite triathlon racing, I’ll still be doing some kind of competition. That’s part of who I am.

– Olympic gold medal-winning triathlete Alistair Brownlee.

PUBLIC trust in the railway is fragile but has never been more important. – Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.

ONE of the things that kills me about tennis is its middle-class image. – Judy Murray whose sons Andy and Jamie are Grand Slamwinning tennis champions.

HOW do you sleep at night? – Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff ’s outburst to Ministers after MPs heard a terminally-ill man is to have his mobility car repossessed.