Law Quote by Mark Twain

“I credit the practice of law with teaching me how to make readers think one thing is happening when it’s really something else.”

— Elaine Williams Crockett

“You couldn't lay down the law and then sulk when no one challenged it.”

— Sydney Landon

“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 complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.”

— Terry Pratchett

“All the law is not in the hands of Giant Despair.”

— Anonymous

“Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not…

— Jim Thompson

“He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined...”

— Walter Pater

“I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all…

— Scott Turow

“There’s lots of law these days,” she interrupted, “but not much justice.”

— Dean Koontz

“Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes…

— John Grisham

“This was law? she thought. Where was the excitement of court cases, the challenge of defending the people that her father was always talking…

— Francine Pascal

“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.”

— Jeffrey Toobin