Robert Morley: Judge

Quotes 

• Judge : Yes Mrs Wilson, it is one of those propaganda pictures. And it's coming to you without the slightest courtesy direct from the British public. Let you and others like you, whether you buy or sell, who have seized the opportunities offered by a war, which is a war for life, yes, for life - to line your pockets, your cupboards or your stomachs on the miserable and illogical plea of 'if I don't do it, someone else will', consider what kind of people you are. Parasites, preying on the body of a community at war!

• Judge : If you refused to buy the goods, the thief would find no point in stealing them. The law recognises this truth by laying down heavier penalties for the receiver than for the instigator of the crime. I don't know if you're acquainted with natural history - I don't profess to being a student of it myself, outside this court, but I cannot help being reminded as I look at you, of some of the more disagreeable manifestations of the insect world.