Lawyer quotes and captions provide insights into this critical legal role in our justice system.
You’ll see funny, inspirational, and noble takes on the lawyer position. There are many stereotypes of lawyers, so as with all people, it’s best to evaluate each on their own merits.
Take the same approach with these famous lawyer quotes and captions.
10 Best Lawyer Quotes
1.) The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham
2.) If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
3.) A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
4.) Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed.
Robert B. McKay
5.) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
6.) A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.
Mario Cuomo
7.) Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment.
Allan C. Hutchinson
8.) Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Henry George Bohn
9.) A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Thomas Jefferson
10.) He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb
Good Lawyer Quotes
I don’t think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of the legislature. You’ve got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
Will Rogers
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness; the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Frank Dane
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
I busted a mirror and got seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
Rodrigo Duterte
In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
Robert Kennedy
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.
Robert Whitlow
Writing is such a ‘pretend’ profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can’t ‘pretend’ to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.
MacKenzie Scott
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Inspirational Lawyer Quotes
Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation, and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
Joe Jamail
Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution.
Rennard Stricklan
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
We, lawyers, are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Charles Dickens
A lawyer’s duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Brigham Young
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
Janet Reno
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Jacques Verges
As a peacemaker, the lawyer has the superior opportunity of being a good man.
Abraham Lincoln
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Short Quotes for Lawyers
A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.
John Kennedy
Good lawyers know the law. Great lawyers know the judge.
Unknown
Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.
Mohamed ElBaradei
I’m a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.
Bob Goff
After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.
Michelle Alexander
I’m a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion, and I can argue it.
Megyn Kelly
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Robert Christy
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
Christopher Darden
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
John Harington
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Abraham Lincoln
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.
Stephen King
Where there’s a will, there’s a lawyer.
Robert Elliott Gonzales
Lawyers are merchants of misery.
Nancy Levit
Lawyers are natural politicians.
Clarence Darrow
I’m a hard-headed lawyer.
Eric Holder
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley
As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don’t.
Jay Alan Sekulow
I am a lawyer by profession.
Kapil Sibal
Lawyers are ones skilled in the circumvention of the law.
Ambrose Bierce
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Janet Reno
Interesting Legal Quotes
Lawyers are: By law’s dark byways, he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
George Crabbe
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Clarence Darrow
It’s every lawyer’s dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
Alan Dershowitz
I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity. These values mean a lot to me.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole lifestyle a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
Anita Hill
A good lawyer never gives up until he wants to or until he gets what he wants.
Tarun Singhal
Lawyers are the one who defends you at the risk of your pocketbook, reputation, and life.
Eugene E. Brussell
What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator.
Marvin Liebman
How lawyers make work for one another! You’re all priests, worshiping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
Joyce Carol Oates
Lawyers are operators of toll bridges that anyone in search of justice must pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Famous Lawyer Quotes
The lawyer’s truth is not truth but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau
Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is.
Raheel Farooq
Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.
Thane Rosenbaum
Politicians were mostly people who had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
George R.R. Martin
We are all honorable men here; we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
Mario Puzo
Where there is a rift in the lute, the business of the lawyer is to widen the rift and gather the loot.
Arthur G. Hays
A very clever lawyer can create a lot of damage; we can only hope that lawyers never figure out how to manipulate physical law.
R. A. Delmonico
As a lawyer who has dealt with defamation, I know that someone’s reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.
David Hunt
Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer, everything in life looks like a case.
Edward Packard
A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.
Mahathir Mohamad
Law Sayings
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, and the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Antonin Scalia
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I’ve never met a parent who didn’t want their kid to be a lawyer.
Jessi Klein
The lawyers know a dead man’s thoughts too well.
Carl Sandburg
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damages awards.
Jodi Picoult
Novelists write fiction. Lawyers speak fiction.
Mike Hockney
Legal Insights
As to the essentials of a good lawyer, I have some very definite convictions. He should have a keen sense of right and wrong and a firm belief in basic moral values.
I would hate to trust the welfare or protection of the life or property of any of my clients to a lawyer who had no respect for moral values or one who had a callous indifference as to what was basically right and wrong.
Joseph T. Karcher
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
Rodrigo Duterte
Funny Lawyer Quotes
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case; sometimes, he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick-skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
David Mellor
You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly, you cannot die without them.
Joseph H. Choate
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Henry P. Brougham
How many lawyer jokes are there? One, the rest are true stories.
Thomas F. Shubnell
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief.
Franz Kafka
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn’t be said for the guy; that’s why there are lawyers.
Melvin Belli
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
Franklin P. Jones
Why don’t you ever hear of a lawyer getting attacked by a shark at the beach? Professional courtesy.
Thomas F. Shubnell
Lawyers are just like physicians: what one says, the other contradicts.
Sholom Aleichem
Miracles of Heaven: to believe lawyers.
Anis Mansour
Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer – you gotta go to the same guy.
Ronny Chieng
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a vulture? The lawyer gets frequent flyer miles.
Thomas F. Shubnell
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson
Lawyer Captions
Where there’s a will, there’s a lawsuit.
Justice for all.
I rest my case.
Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.
The letter of the law.
May I approach the bench?
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Above suspicion.
A lawyer is not a lawyer if he is not loyal to his profession.
A law unto oneself.
Ambulance chaser.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.
Justice is blind.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
See you later, litigator.
Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Cease and desist.
How about practicing some lateral equality?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
All rise!
All you need is love and a good attorney.
Pain is temporary; passing the bar is forever.
Objection, your honor.
The spirit of the law.
Don’t misinform your doctor or your lawyer.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Above the law.
Control your destiny, or someone else will.
I take the fifth.
The defense rests.
May I remind you you’re under oath?
The letter of the law.
Be sure to put your feet in the right place and stand firm.
Null and void.
The young man knows the rules, but the lawyer knows the exceptions.
Order in the court.
I hope you enjoyed our collection of notable lawyer quotes and captions.
By Joyce Johnson
Joyce writes about law, family, and business.
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