Quotes of the week
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Andrew Leithead, Assistant Treasury Solicitor, at the Scott inquiry
I walked into a room once where a judge, sitting behind his newspaper, called out 'Marshall] Where are my Marmite soldiers?'
Wife of retired judge on the cost ( pounds 700 per day) of judges' lodgings
I am looking forward to a pint of Guinness.
Jacqueline Greaves on being rescued from the Cairngorms
I can personally testify to poetry's calming effects, since during my poetry-reading sessions, I always find some members of the audience snoring to metre.
Ghazi Algosaibi, Saudi Arabian ambassador
It wasn't for what everybody thought it was for . . . I'm guilty of a lot of things, but I didn't do that.
President Clinton fails to explain why he lined his pick-up truck with Astroturf as a young man
I am over the moon.
I pounds 3m fails to inspire winner of Irish national lottery to eloquence
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