William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett

The Right Honourable (William) Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, PC (1883-09-06 – 1962-02-10) was a noted British barrister and judge who served as the alternate British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

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• I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.
  • Robert Andrews, Famous Lines: a Columbia dictionary of familiar quotations (1997), which cites a quotation in the London Observer, 30 October 1960
• Don't judge a book by its cover.^{[citation needed]}
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words always hurt me.^{[citation needed]}