Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up >>

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked >>

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obv >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. >>

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face whil >>

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better >>

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond