I find her attitude is one of complete, breathtaking arrogance . . . I am so concerned by the latter that I really feel I need a professional opinion from an appropriate medical person before I pass judgment . . . I mean here a psychologist or psychiatrist.
- Judge Mary Devins, of Audrey Flynn, daughter of Padraig Flynn, who was in court on charges concerning the operation of a school bus service without appropriate insurance
I do not think he would have lost a night's sleep if he had killed me, and he would have killed me. He was a paid professional soldier. No side has a monopoly on suffering.
- Angelo Fusco, the former IRA prisoner, asked in 1993 about SAS Capt Herbert Westmacott, of whose murder he was convicted. Fusco's extradition to the North was halted during the week
I ask forgiveness for not justifying some hopes of those people who believed that at one stroke . . . we could overcome everything.
- Boris Yeltsin in his resignation speech
I think he should be tortured - that's what he deserves. If there is not going to be any trial, then I would be ready to contribute to a fund to remove this man from the world.
- Yehuda Ben Yosef, who lost all his family to the Nazis in 1941, of alleged war criminal Konrad Kalejs
We have clear evidence to prove Pakistan's involvement . . . the Pakistani establishment is certainly responsible for this.
- Brajesh Mishra, India's national security adviser, on the Indian Airlines hijacking
When I was in my 20s and 30s, there were certain things that were irresistible. And then into my 40s. And into my 50s. Being adolescent never got boring to me.
- Legendary Hollywood Lothario Warren Beatty
It isn't taking any time at all for most folks to realise that the Y2K bug scare was the biggest scam, hoax and myth of the 20th century all rolled into one.
- Jorge Bocobo, Filipino physicist
The poetry of these children is born from the fact that we find in them all the sufferings of adults.
- The writer Umberto Eco, talking about the characters of the Peanuts comic strip, which its creator, Charles J. Schulz, has ended due to ill health
Heaney has reclaimed the first classic of the English language for a contemporary readership.
- The Whitbread judges of Seamus Heaney, who has won the Whitbread Poetry Award for his reworking of Beowulf