Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Lawyers

• Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Law, Machines

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

• LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Lawyer

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

• 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 difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Suicide, Differences

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.111, University of Georgia Press

• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Hope, Giving Up

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

• Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Liars, Roving, Lawyer

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.126, 谷月社

• FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Latin, Character

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.86, University of Georgia Press

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