Lawyer Quotes - Page 31

• Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Office

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• Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

  Rachel Hartman

  Believe, Men, Wrinkles

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• If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, School, Humor

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• For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  Couple, Army, Thinking

  "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.

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• I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

  Louis Garrel

  Jobs, Wanted, Knows

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• Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Sleep, Men, Assassins

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

  Keith Rothfus

  Focus, Type, Software

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• Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

  Keith Rothfus

  Wall, Years, Tourists

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• They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

  Martial

  Passion, Eloquence, Referring

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• When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.

  W. C. Fields

  Money, Ifs

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• [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

  Ouida

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Religion

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, World, Want

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.160, Vintage

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• If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.

  Lois Wyse

  Believe, Cities, Keys

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• I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Years, Law

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• If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

  Clarence Darrow

  Party, Destiny, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

  Clarence Darrow

  Winning, Doe, Cases

  Clarence Seward Darrow (2017). “Industrial Conspiracies”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair;
  Honesty shines with great advantage there.

  William Cowper

  Honesty, Shining, Advantage

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.61

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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• Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

  Susan B. Anthony

  Teacher, Men, Doctors

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

  Agatha Christie

  Law, Knows

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Taken, People, Income

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.57, Random House

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• Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Support, Ignorant, Asylums

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• Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Country, Liars, Law

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could be sued for anything any one of my characters said. 'But I often don't agree with what they say,' I protested. The lawyer was not interested in the clear distinction I make between my own voice and the voices of my characters. Neither, I have found, are many of my readers.

  Jane Rule

  Character, Voice, Firsts

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.213, Open Road Media

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