"I look at the matter from an entirely different point of view." "You shall leave when you like, of course, Fawsitt, but tell me what that point of view is ?" "Just this, sir.

The simplest-minded idiot who ever stammered through his address, can get an innocent prisoner off if he knows enough of the facts and the law.

To my mind, the real triumph in our profession is to be able to unwind the meshes of damning facts and force a verdict for an indubitably guilty client." "How does the moral side of that appeal to you ?" his senior enquired.
"I didn't become a barrister to study morals, or even to consider them," was the somewhat caustic reply.

"When once a brief is in my mind, it is a matter of brain, cunning and resource.

The guiltier a man, the greater the success if you can get him off." "And turn him loose again upon Society ?" "It isn't our job to consider that, sir.