The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

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

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.