Patrick Murray Quotes

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.

I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

The legal profession is overrun with money-makers, who regard it only as a business by which money is made, with little or no thought of the quality of the means used. We greatly need many more lawyers who regard the profession as a ministry in the temple of Justice.

You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

A lawyer should have her facts straight.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.