Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. Charles Lamb
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. Lord Halifax (George Savile)
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham
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. Sir Walter Scott
No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails. John Mortimer
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. John Keats
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. Donald Rumsfeld
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. Desiderius Erasmus
I don’t want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire them to tell me how to do what I want to do. John Pierpoint Morgan
About half of the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop. Elihu Root
…no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client. Anthony Trollope
If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately. Richard Ingrams
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare (Henry VI, Pt2)