Portal:Law/Selected quotations/8

“

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean fingernails.

”

— John Mortimer, barrister and writer, in A Voyage Round My Father (1971)

Source

"Mortimer, John" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Susan Ratcliffe. Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 22 September 2010. [1]