I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

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

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

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

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

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