“I will not forget you.”

The threat made to Konrad Pulè, head of land transport at Transport Malta, in a Christmas card with a length of rope burnt at one end enclosed.

“He was wiping his nose in his hand and on the purser’s clothes.”

Maria Busuttil, 60, recounting the scenes unfolding on an Air Malta plane when a Caribbean man knelt down in the aisle and started bellowing the Our Father in English.

“...seem to have gone off their rocker.”

Prof. Carmel Pulè describing engineering graduates’ behaviour after they broke into the University faculty and urinated on the door of the lecturer’s office.

“This is a waste of people’s money... and is making a mockery of the country and its courts.”

Transsexual Joanne Cassar reacting to the Attorney General’s decision to appeal the Constitutional Court’s judgement giving her the right to marry.

“Thanks for the Christmas of a lifetime... no dinner, no heating.”

A timesofmalta.com commentator complaining about the gas strike.

“I’ll make them eat their statements.”

Carlos Falzon, 24, charged with making two hoax bomb threats at court to postpone his sittings, reacting angrily to news that his girlfriend and cousin would be making statements against him.