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

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole..

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's mid….

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied..

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you d….

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

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 ….

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

There is always time for failure.

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

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvan….

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me about the house all day 'wearing….

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..

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

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

People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastie….

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, ….

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

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….

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that….