“New York men just use women who make themselves too easily available on first dates. I find it disgusting that men expect sex on a first date and they often get it” - Actress Shirley Leigh-Wood Oakes.
“We need a Tory - and no mucking around” - Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, on his choice for the new director-general of the BBC.
“We are not old. We are recycled teenagers” - Beryl Renwick, 86, and Betty Smith, 90, pictured (below) with David Reeve of BBC Radio Humberside, whose weekly show on BBC Radio Humberside has won them a Sony Radio Award for the best entertainment programme.
“One day the details of this case will emerge and people will see today as nothing more than an expensive sideshow, a waste of public money as a result of an unjust and weak decision” - Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World, after being charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
“No one forced them to come here. They fight to get here and then they whinge. They should grit their teeth and get on with the job” - Beryl Goldsmith, who was Lord Tebbit’s secretary and who died this week, in a recent comment about MPs who complain about long hours.
“Men love their women to have depth, but only when it comes to their cleavages” - An unnamed film director alleging sexism at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress” - The Duke of Edinburgh, 90, on meeting a blonde in a red frock with a full-length zip at Bromley, Kent.
