Quotes by Paul O'Neil

A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall.

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors.

Lolly was possessed by a fiendish, auntielike excitement when on the trail of a hot exclusive, and would sit at her telephone all night long if necessary, interpreting the denials of those she was interrogating as the great horned owl interprets the squeaking of distant mice.

No splints yet invented will heal a lawyer's broken reputation.

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.