Lawyer Quotes · Page 26

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

— Ralph Nader

I think you'd be better off with a lawyer who has no conflict problems.

— John Gotti

He was a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.

— Joyce Wadler

“The only people who lawyer up faster than dirty cops are dirty lawyers.”

— Chuck Hogan

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

— Alex Flinn

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

— Jimmy Hoffa

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

— Charles Soule

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

— Suzanne La Follette

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be…

— Grantland Rice

I was a law student when I started acting in plays. I was a real estate lawyer but I continued acting on…

— Shraddha Srinath

Working as a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, I was less worried by the quibbling over U.N. resolutions on Iraq than the…

— Dominic Raab

I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.

— Peter Jacobson

Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax…

— Michael Hudson

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how…

— Graydon Carter

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you…

— Judy Sheindlin

Basically what you want in any profession - I would say the same thing if I were a lawyer or a doctor…

— Louis Menand

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive…

— Charles Hamilton Houston

I published a thesis about animal rights when I was studying in England in 1991. Back then, I was a human rights…

— Park Won-soon

It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,'…

— Benjamin Wittes

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is…

— Woodrow Wilson

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention;…

— James Lipton

“don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it.…

— Edgar Wallace

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of…

— Shirin Ebadi

The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for…

— William O. Douglas

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

— Clive Anderson

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

— R.J. Rushdoony

What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start..

— Danny DeVito

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.

— Soccer Mommy

“The lawyer said he couldn’t take my case, even though I assured him it was stuffed with money.”

— Jarod Kintz

I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.

— Megyn Kelly

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

— Calvin Trillin

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

— Jonathan Swift

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all…

— Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

— Eli Broad

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

— Gabriel Macht

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

— Thomas Jefferson

I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.

— Johnny Carson

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

— Stone Gossard

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

— Keith Rothfus