Amoral Attorney/Quotes

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.

—Henry Brougham

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

—Samuel Johnson

It's okay. I'm used to the callous attitude mortals have towards vampires. I'm used to wandering the earth - reviled, hunted, hated. That's why I became a lawyer.

—Alan Decker, She Wolf of London

Frankly I think if the Devil himself were to walk this earth, he'd need representation.

—Jilly Kitzinger, Torchwood: Miracle Day

Look for the blood in the water,
read your Thomas Hobbes,

only spineless snobs

will quarrel with the morally dubious jobs.

Yes, blood in the water;

your scruples are a flaw.

You're nothing until

the thrill of the kill

becomes your only law!

—Prof. Callahan, Legally Blonde the Musical

"Going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer. You want a criminal lawyer, know what I mean?"

—Jesse on Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad.

"What do lawyers and sperm have in common? One in fifty million have a chance to become a human being."

—Stephen Fry, QI

"What were you thinking?! People could have died! Before billable services were rendered!"

—Harvey, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

Holtz: "You said you work for the law."

Lilah Morgan: "No, I didn't. I said I'm a lawyer. I don't care about the law."

—Angel, "Lullaby"

And from hence also arises another inferance that the liberties of Englishmen are not(as some arbitrary writers would represent them)mere infringements on the King's power but a restoration of that ancient constitution of which our ancestors had been defrauded by the art and finesse of Norman lawyers, rather then deprived by the force of Norman arms.

—Commentaries on the Laws of England, by Sir. William Blackstone, English Jurist