Quotes about lawyers

He was, of course, cheating her, that was what lawyers were for.

After the cousins came the accountants, who were more open in their appraisals and didn’t bother with Alice at all, and after the accountants, like a Biblical plague building up to a big finish, came the lawyers.

It is one of the unfortunate aspects of the legal profession that excess carries no penalty. There is never, for a lawyer, such a thing as too much.

The lead prosecutor told the jury at my trial that I was “A sick parasite, preying on society.”

Parasite on society; this, mind you, from a lawyer.

A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.

If they had lawyers instead of teeth, they’d be as bad as people.

“It’s never too early for the truth,” Summers said, which proved he’d never been a lawyer.

Where there’s a will, there’s a lawyer.

Radicals hire bomb-throwing maniacs. Rich men hire lawyers. They’re more expensive, but they ought to be, because they do more damage.

It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Theoretical liberties, however, we are too often assured at the expense of actual civilities, and as civilities were lost, litigation emerged as a way of life with a consequent reduction in real liberties for all persons except lawyers, who, like mercenaries, are profiteers of discord. Persons were actually allowed, by law, under the guise of free expression, to shout into the faces of those who held differing opinions and to intrude upon their privacy. Liberty has two legs. Vigilance is certainly one, but civility is as certainly the other.