Rumpole Quotes

#1. With legal aid now capped at the bus fare for a trainee solicitor to come and explain how to plead guilty, Rumpole desperately needed a more remunerative outlet for his legal knowledge. Inspired

David Mitchell

#2. Rumpole, you must move with the times."
"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.

John Mortimer

#3. I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.

Kerry Greenwood

#4. She who must be obeyed, by Horace Rumpole character

John Mortimer

#5. If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

Leo McKern

#6. Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. It seemed like way too much work, cleaning up my grief.

Jennifer Brown

#8. Questing ... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Joseph Campbell

#9. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

John O'Donohue

#10. It's never too late to do the right thing.

JenniferElizabeth Austin

#11. Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

Bulleh Shah

#12. Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Alfred Tennyson

#13. It's not about blood,"
says Lucius. "It's
about who you share
your life with.
Where you feel
you really belong.

Emma Cameron

#14. As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.

James E. Faust

#15. Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

John Selden

#16. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

John Roberts

#17. Happiness is contagious. The more I think about it the happier I am.

Marty Rubin

#18. It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Clay Shirky

#19. I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.

William Boyd

#20. It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.

Victoria Jackson