Lawyer Quotes

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

~ Joe Jamail

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

~ Anita Hill

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

~ Tom Glazer

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

~ Jay Alan Sekulow

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

~ John Lothrop Motley

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

~ Jerry O'connell

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

~ Johnnie Cochran

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

~ Max Walker

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

~ Potter Stewart

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

~ William Dunbar

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

~ Edward Bennett Williams

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

~ John Harington

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

~ Marguerite Young

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

~ David Mamet

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

~ William Petersen