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

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

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

There is always time for failure

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.

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

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