Best Lawyer Quotes
1050 Lawyer quotes by 778 unique authors
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As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got…
— Graydon Carter
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
— Anton Chekhov
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to…
— Francesca Annis
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Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
— George Carlin
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The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.
— W.C. Fields
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
— Vaclav Havel
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If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years for people to…
— Barack Obama
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This…
— Warren E. Burger
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One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and tirelessly labor in…
— Unknown Author
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches…
— William Whipple
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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape…
— Peggy Noonan
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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
— Aristotle
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
— John Lyly
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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