British Lawyer Quotes

W. E. Aytoun
Cherie Blair
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

All night long the northern streamers Shot across the trembling sky: Fearful lights, that never beckon Save when kings or heroes die.

W. E. Aytoun
W. E. Aytoun
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog.

What is the difference between a Lord Chancellor and a Secretary of State, the man on Clapham Omnibus could, with reason, ask. After all, that engagingly friendly and cheerful chappie, Lord Falconer, seems to be quite happy playing both roles.

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
It is not fair to Tony or to the Government that the entire focus of political debate at the moment is about me. I know I'm in a very special position, I'm the wife of the Prime Minister, I have an interesting job and a wonderful family, but I also know I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air. Some of you must experience that.

Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair
Whereas in England all is permitted that is not expressly prohibited, it has been said that in Germany all is prohibited unless expressly permitted and in France all is permitted that is expressly prohibited. In the European Common Market (as it then was) no-one knows what is permitted and it all costs more.

The Church by no mental contortions or intellectual gymnastics can ever reconcile the dull negative assertions of Science with the spiritual aspirations of Religion, the noble altruisms of Christianity, or the divine visions of the philosophers.

One said a Physitian was naturall brother to the wormes, because he was ingendered out of man's corruption.