"As a judge, who shall remain nameless, put it to me, the only thing that is fun about being a judge is mobbing up counsel."

"This in no way reflects on my opinion of the Queen whom I respect and would be honoured to have as a customer."

"To be honest, his feelings were kind of hurt. He said he was going on vacation to Afghanistan, where people like him."

"I have to admit we really blew the way we let those attorneys go. You know you've botched it when people sympathise with lawyers."

"A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice-president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days."

"I think the highly selective manipulation of such evidence as there was, together with the highly prejudicial use to which it was put, was deeply dishonest."

"I hope I won't hurt their feelings if I say this, but Hilton and Lohan are attention seekers."

"We need to reinvigorate and revive what we stand for if we are to avoid sleepwalking into disaster."

Other younger royals had visited and had a more "up-to-date picture" of what the company stood for.

"I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops on the ground now, and my understanding is Mr. Howard has deployed 1,400, so if he is to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq."

"She claims that she recently learnt to cook for the first time and has stopped using her fridge merely to store Manolo Blahniks."

"And when you have a leader who speaks in dull slogans you are stupefying the mind of the country."

"The best you can say about his personal life is that he is a serial monogamist."

"the first few strands of a bridge over the raging torrent of misunderstandings and cultural differences."

"I hope the issue won't be decided by super-cautious negative conservatism"

"Athenian democracy is one thing, the Paris Commune is another."

"What Michael Schumacher has done today will go down in the history of F1. He was flying. I don't know what he had but he was literally flying."

"He is the greatest. Nobody will ever beat him, as long as we are alive."

"We didn't have enough troops on the ground. We didn't impose our will. And as a result, an insurgency got started and... got out of control."

"The commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions - or bury the results."

"Is Cameron one of us? No. He's just trying to get rid of the idea that he's an Eton toff."

"Poor Sion has obviously gone mad."

"David Cameron may find that those who wait too long to see which way the wind is blowing, get blown away by the gale."

"lead used in ammunition can harm the environment and pose a risk to people."

"In life you need to have a little bit of class and so I prefer not to respond."

Luca di Montezemolo, Ferrari's president, on comment by Flavio Briatore, the Renault team principal (2006 Monza race) “What happened on Sunday isn't the problem. It is what happened before the race which is strange. This is a world championship which has already been decided at the table. We have understood how things go. It has all been decided . . . they have decided to give the world championship to Schumacher and that is what will be”

“That is the brutal truth. It gives us no pleasure to say it. But it has to be said. And understood.”

“I don't think Britian ended up influencing the Bush Administration on Iraq one jot. We were simply a sort of multilateral pin to stick in the Administration's lapel.”