Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet Quotes

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

Being a lawyer, it's like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it's lovely to make sure that key continues to work and to continue to brush up on the law every so often.

I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.