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I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.
Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation
I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving.
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
Ensuring we have the best possible Brexit deal will take time, effort and huge diplomatic skill.
I am really lucky with my skin. It comes from my mum. Fashion tip from Cherie: drink lots of water.
Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.
I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.
A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.
Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.
The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing
The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.
No border controls anywhere in the world are able to prevent determined criminals from crossing borders.
We need a transitional Brexit deal that provides maximum certainty and stability. Labour will deliver it.
The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it's a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.
In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.
Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
Leaving the E.U. without a preferential trade arrangement in place would make the U.K. significantly poorer.
Everyone remembers where they were on 7 July 2005 when four deadly bombs ripped through the heart of London.
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
I'm well aware of different views across my own party and across Parliament on pretty well all Brexit issues.
I am well aware of different views across my own party and across parliament on pretty well all Brexit issues.
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.
Labour's priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.