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A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.—LORD BROUGHAM
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And summed it so well that it came to far more
Than the Witnesses ever had said!—LEWIS CARROLL, The Hunting of the Snark
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The trouble with law and government is lawyers.—CLARENCE DARROW
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A barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases.—IBSEN, A Doll's House
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.—MILTON, Tractate of Education
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.—SIR THOMAS MORE, Utopia
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Lawyers' gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.—Proverb
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Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools.—Proverb
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Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser.—Proverb
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A good lawyer makes an evil neighbour.—Proverb
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A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.—Proverb
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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.—SCOTT, Guy Mannering
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Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the present time if the influence of lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.—DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America
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The profession of law is the only aristocratic element which can be amalgamated without violence with the natural elements of democracy, and which can be advantageously and permanently combined with them.—DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America
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Always remember that when you go into an attorney's office door you will have to pay for it, first or last.—ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Last Chronicle of Barset
