attorney quotes

Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game ofchance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

-Capote,Truman
  In Cold Blood, ch.4.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly, ugly daughter.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Trial by  Jury.

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  HMS Pinafore, act 2.

Idonot caretospeak ill of any man behind his back, but I believe the gentleman is an attorney.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

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