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

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

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

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

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.