Lawyer Quotes

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

~ Magdalen Braden

What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of success are quite remote and the consequences of failure are likely to be devastating? Is it pride, stubbornness, a yearning for adventure, or just a reckless disregard of reality?

~ Stan Turner

I remember when I was twenty-five,� he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.

~ Daniel Amory

Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

~ Gustave Flaubert

I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine, I'll prosecute him one day and he'll be sentenced to life without parole…with me.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

I was a good lawyer , and most days that was enough. I was aware, however, that I took refuge in my profession, as unlikely as that seemed considering the amount of human suffering I dealt with. It offered me a role to escape into, from what I no longer knew; perhaps nothing more significant than my own little ration of suffering.

~ Michael Nava

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

~ Antonin Scalia

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

~ Joe Jamail

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

~ Scott Turow

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

~ Sara Blakely

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

~ Megyn Kelly

If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?

~ Sonny Bill Williams

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

~ Peter Thiel

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

~ Steve Case

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

~ Jessica Szohr

As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

~ Walter Scott

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

~ Jeremy Bentham

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

~ John Ensign

The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.

~ Zeljko Ivanek

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

~ Spike Lee

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

~ Janet Reno

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

~ Nelson Mandela

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

~ Chauncey Depew

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

~ P. Sathasivam

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

~ Frank Dane

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

~ Mario Puzo

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

~ Will Rogers

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

~ Oliver North

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

~ Christopher Darden

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

~ Sonny Bono

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

~ Daniel Goleman

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

~ Janet Reno

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

~ George Herbert

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

~ Charles Lamb