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