#lawyer

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#had #haven #his #hope #i

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#became #father #good #i #i think

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. ↗

— William Whipple

#chicanery #congress #deal #even #gentlemen

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

Divorce is a game played by lawyers. ↗

— Cary Grant

#game #lawyers #played

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted. ↗

— Tom Holt

#lawyers #predators

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. ↗

— David Mellor

#charge #lawyers #like #ready #short-sighted

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #claim #democratic #democratic party #democrats

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level. ↗

— Parker Posey

#angry #being #kill #lawyers #leaving

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#changes #court #followed #growing #growing up