“Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.”

“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”

“When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.''So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room.'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.''I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex.'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?''Something a little less drastic,' said Alex.”

“If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.”

“With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor”

“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”

“One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.”