Norman Rodway: Morry Machin

Quotes 

• Morry Machin : I have admired you often, sir, from afar. They say you're a fighter, Mr. Rumpole. They say you're a terrier, sir, after the legal rabbit.

• Morry Machin : Have you been drinking at all this evening?

  Horace Rumpole : [slightly tipsy]  Of course, I've been drinking at all. You don't think I come out with these blinding flashes of deduction when I'm completely sober, do you?

• [Morry Machin refuses to print a clarification about the photograph of Claude Erskine-Brown outside the sex club] 

  Horace Rumpole : Mr Machin, I told you that it was a legal rule that a British barrister is in duty bound to take on any client, however repellent.

  Morry Machin : I do remember you saying something of the sort.

  Horace Rumpole : But you are stretching my duty to the furthest limit of human endurance.

• Morry Machin : [patronisingly]  Have you been drinking at all this evening?

  Horace Rumpole : Of *course* I've been drinking. You don't think I come out with these blinding flashes of deduction when I'm completely sober, do you?