“I only take Viagra when I am with more than one woman” - Hollywood star Jack Nicholson, 75.

“I hope he won’t mind me calling him a flipping bounder” - Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik who said he had always regarded Andrew Mitchell, the Government chief whip, as “something of a gentleman”.

“I was always rather afraid of the idea. I think I worried what would happen when you hadn’t got anything to say to each other” - Actress Celia Imrie (below) on marriage, which she says she regarded as a “trap”.

There’s going to be a cull, so rather than just throw them in landfill, why not eat them? There are too many badgers and I would have no objection to eating badgers” - TV food expert Clarissa Dickson Wright.

“Telling men to stop staring at a breast is like telling us not to stare at a burning airliner. It isn’t possible” - TV’s Jeremy Clarkson.

“The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don’t do. You don’t have sex near unicorns” - Harry Potter author JK Rowling.

“If you look like a sack of offal that has been drop-kicked down a lift-shaft into a pond, you are going to spend many of your formative years alone” - Comedienne Miranda Hart, who said that as a youngster she looked like “a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot men and a monk”.