“We are all honourable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.”
Mario Puzo from The Godfather
“Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.”
George RR Martin
“Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?”
Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind.
“Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!”
Diane Gabaldon from the Voyager
“Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.”
Craig Ferguson from American on purpose
“When a conman hires a lawyer then he has met his match”
Anon
“A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomé Chassenée argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.”
Karen Joy Fowler
“Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.”
Harper Lee from To Kill A Mockingbird
“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defence that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.”
William Landay
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