Margaret Thatcher to her Cabinet: “Respect.”
Geoffrey Howe to Margaret Thatcher: “Gotcha!”
Roald Amundsen on reaching the South Pole: “Cool.”
Saint Sebastian: “Ouch!”
Nicholas Soames: “Waiter!”
Beethoven: “Pardon?” (Also attributed to Vincent van Gogh and Richard Nixon.)
Anita Roddick: “Shop!”
Jeffrey Archer, in an unguarded moment of candour, on his collected literary output: “Sorry.” (It is also suggested that he once said this to his wife, to which she replied: “Really?”)
William Tell to his son: “Duck!”
Gordon Ramsay: “Enjoy.” (But more associated with another single word quote which rhymes with the above.)
Nero: “Fire!”
Elizabeth Taylor in response to “so long as you both shall live?” on various occasions: “Maybe.”
George W. Bush when told by Colin Powell that Tehran was not the