My handbags did good service in cabinet and I am pleased they are still having the right effect.
- Lady Thatcher, responding to the news that the charity auction of her Ferregamo handbag had raised £100,000 for Breast Cancer Care.
This seems extraordinary, given that we were surrounded by millions of pounds worth of high-tech equipment and a pillow could not be produced.
- Labour TD Mr Emmet Stagg, after discovering that some patients were forced to provide their own pillows in hospital due to a pillow shortage.
Please, do not send any more.
- A Royal Mail spokesman asking people to stop sending chain letters to an English man who has received over 150 million cards and letters since he made a request for "get well" cards as a child 11 years ago.
In my opinion, we have to learn lessons very, very quickly from this case.
- Minister for Health and Children Mr Martin speaking about the revelations that a 16-year-old girl who had been tortured, raped and mutilated by her father was left homeless for several months.
We are having a party tonight and Harry Crosbie is invited to come. I hear he's a lovely singer.
- North Wall resident Mr Gerry Fay, preparing to celebrate after the news that An Bord Pleanala had rejected a major part of the Spencer Dock Development proposed by a consortium which included Mr Harry Crosbie.
I welcome competition in all areas. It is good for politics and good for the economy.
- Tanaiste Ms Harney, reacting to the news that the launch of a new political party was at an advanced stage.
It is very rare to see four bodies coming out of one home. It is a tragic sequence of events for those involved and for the people of Leixlip.
- Det Supt Tony Sourke, speaking after the discovery of the bodies of four women in a house in Leixlip, Co Kildare, on Wednesday.
The Orange Order stands for higher ideals than this and must at every opportunity condemn the illegal activities of the paramilitaries and of those who engage in acts of violence.
- Lagan Valley MP Mr Jeffrey Donaldson, speaking at the Twelfth demonstrations in Co Down.
Not as much as the contestants.
- Gay Byrne's response, when asked what he would earn from presenting the Irish version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Your real complaint about holding us to account is that you are so useless, weak and feeble that in three years you've not been able to impress yourselves on anybody.
- British Prime Minister Mr Blair, trading insults with Conservative leader Mr Hague in a House of Commons debate this week.
The girl has four eyes, four ears, two mouths and two noses. The rest of her body is perfectly normal and her state of health has so far been satisfactory.
- Dr Golnaz Kiani, speaking after delivering a baby girl with two faces in Iran. The baby's mother had taken an array of drugs during pregnancy.