Contrary to the claim of certain kinds of feminism, women above all are dishonoured.
- Dr Desmond Connell, Arch- bishop of Dublin, on contraception
This is the punishment for the Anglo-Saxons who sold us out. You are protecting the minority [Tutsis] and oppressing the majority [Hutus].
- Message found on the body of one of the eight tourists murdered by Rwandan Hutu rebels in Uganda
If we don't catch them, we shall kill them.
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on the Hutu killers
Well, there are obviously serious implications for the position of Sinn Fein within this [process]. They won't be part of an executive. The question then is, will there be an executive? And that's what people will have to focus their minds on.
- The North's First Minister, David Trimble, when asked what would happen if the IRA failed to decommission its weapons
In my view there isn't even the remotest possibility of the IRA responding to this unilateral demand from the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, which amounts to . . . a demand for the surrender of the IRA.
- Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness
Who provides the tickets? The electorate provides the tickets, not David Trimble. He is not the ticket-master.
- Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin on Mr Trimble's warning that republicans risked missing the "settlement train"
It would be a tragedy and a grotesque insult to the wishes of the Irish people for either side to plunge us all into the unknown, but that is fast becoming a possibility.
- Ruairi Quinn
Perhaps we are all taking it too quickly for granted. It was very striking, very moving.
- The British ambassador, Ivor Roberts, on the Northern Ireland Assembly
I went in an innocent man and I have come out an innocent man.
- Mayo Fine Gael councillor John Flannery, acquitted of inciting hatred towards Travellers whom he compared to "pedigree dogs"
Push Posh.
- Sun headline on the birth of a baby boy to Posh Spice
He was a good kisser. He was my sexual soulmate.
- Monica Lewinsky on President Clinton
I have no problem with chequebook journalism, as long as some of the cheque goes to me.
- Jon Snow, the Channel 4 newsreader who interviewed Ms Lewinsky
I'm not, I'm looking at you. I've a pain in my face looking at you.
- James Gogarty, after Garrett Cooney for JMSE told him not to look at his lawyers
Beauty's only skin deep, Mr Cooney.
- Mr Justice Flood
The most sensitive issue that came up during my time in the bank.
- Liam St John Devlin, former director of AIB, on the settlement of Charles Haughey's debt
Men are animals and as such are entitled to humane treatment and should not be trapped or shot or bred for food or fur.
- Germaine Greer
It's a long time since being a star was the most important thing to me. I don't need to be adored, to hear that applause. If I never heard it again, I would still be fine.
- The late Dusty Springfield after a recurrence of breast cancer in February 1998