Quotes of the week ...

They said what?

'American women: can't afford to live with them. Can't afford to pay them $2 million a year.'

John Cleese hasn't lost his sense of humour despite being embroiled in his third divorce.

'I'm not ginger, I'm auburn. That's what I've been told.'

Prince Harry joined in the comedy arranged to mark his papa's 60th birthday. How we roared.

'It's good to be back on board, as they say in Corfu.'

Peter Mandelson, who was handed the Newcomer of the Year Award at the Spectator magazine's political prize ceremony last week by none other than George Osborne.

'I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating.'

Sugar-coated criticism for the likes of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay from Delia Smith

'I'm sure that somebody who has laid bricks for 50 years is pretty confident about their job. I'm no different from them.'

Clint Eastwood doesn't go in for adding to the mystique of his profession - unlike some - and we like him all the more for it.

'When someone had to leave for Moscow or Tbilisi, who defended human rights?'

Nicolas Sarkozy demonstrates his well known Gallic modesty as he accepts a Politique International prize.

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