L Quotes
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“Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.”
Source: The Trial
“Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.”
Source: The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville
“Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.”
Source: Dorothy Forster
“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”
“Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Lawyers are natural politicians.”
“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
“Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.”
“Lawyers are predators in grey worsted”
“Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc
“Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.”
“Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”
“Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.”
“Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen..."—Murder in Hand”
“Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.”
“Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.”
“Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.”
Source: Accelerando
“Lawyers don't run sales forces.”
“Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.”
“Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.”
Source: Painted Veils
“Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.”
Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death
“Lawyers forever overestimate their own intelligence and underestimate their clients'.”
“Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.”
“Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.”
“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.”
“Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.”
Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
“Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.”
“Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.”
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: In 2 Vol
“Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.”
“Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.”
Source: Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts
“Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.”
“Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.”
“Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.”
“lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.”
Source: Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection
“Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.”
Source: Speak
“Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?”
Source: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
“Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue.”
“Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.”
“Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.”
“Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.”
“Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.”
“Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.”
“Lawyers were all rascals: that is why you paid them so high: the convenient fellows did dirty work for a clean man.”
Source: Paying Guests
“Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.”
Source: Ascending
“Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.”