Lawyer Quotes · Page 18

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

— Russell Banks

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

— Tom King

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

— Thomas Adams

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

— Anne Bishop

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

— Bill Veeck

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

— Jean Giraudoux

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

— Orrin Hatch

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

— Keith Rothfus

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault,…

— Andrew Tobias

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just…

— Wendy Wasserstein

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front…

— Jennifer Lopez

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in…

— Bill Veeck

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate,…

— Samuel Alito

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that…

— Omari Hardwick

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

— Lucille Ball

“We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly…

— David Wong

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe…

— Jonathan Swift

The family of Keith Scott viewed the police video and it's worth repeating that afterward the family made a statement through their…

— Chris Hayes

The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony…

— Josh Lanyon

McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call…

— Anonymous

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So…

— David Mamet

You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But…

— Raymond Kelly

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father…

— Hugh Masekela

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean…

— Walter Isaacson

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

— F. Ross Johnson

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

— Rashida Tlaib

I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

— Elijah Cummings

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

— Laila Robins

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

— Sol Stein

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

— Jamie Moyer

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

— Hart Pomerantz

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

— Anthony Kennedy

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

— Naval Ravikant

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

— Stephen Gillers

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

— Gavin Rossdale

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

— Robert H. Jackson

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

— Robert B. Weide

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

— Matthew McGrory

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

— Louis Nizer