Irony Quote by Bryce Courtenay

“after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn’t have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world.…

— Jon Ronson

“Lord Westbury, it is said, rebuffed a barrister’s reliance upon an earlier opinion of his by stating, “I can only say that I am…

— Charles M. Sevilla

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was…

— Lord Byron

“This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions…

— Hilary Mantel

“He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly.…

— Dave Zeltserman

“He had been in the legal profession long enough to know that human behavior was complicated and unpredictable and that justice always had to…

— Thrity Umrigar

The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.

— Robert Rinder

“It would seem that this is a great crime, of which they are all guilty. How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself, and to…

— Victor Hugo

“The worst of which he could be accused during his teaching career is that he made far too great a distinction between those students…

— J.K. Rowling

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a…

— Sergio De La Pava

“My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace,…

— Molière

“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely guilty with…

— Kate Atkinson