Quotes of the week ...

They said what?

'It was an accident. He was just sharpening his knife and it slipped.'

Gennaro Contaldo explains that his mentor and friend Antonio Carluccio did not mean to stab himself in the heart. Delighted to hear it, if a little confused.

'You can't keep money around for ever. It's like saving sex for your old age.'

Warren Buffett has certainly become no worse at making money as the years roll by, we noted last week, as he made a killing from Goldman Sachs.

'This is my wife, not a prop.'

David Cameron responds to the PM's jibe about using his children for political ends by introducing his wife to a City dinner. We notice that while Gordon made a fair point, Dave's conquered it with a soundbite.

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