Lawyer Quotes

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.

U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.