Robert Smith Quotes

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

… the comfortable fiction that all lawyers are skilled or even competent craftsmen in representing the fundamental rights of their clients.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

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

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

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

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.

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

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

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

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

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.