The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.