Quotes about Lawyers

Cornelius Cobb: You're wasting your time. He doesn't want any lawyers. He's sunk so low he doesn't want help from anybody. You can take a bow for that. As swell a guy as ever hit this town, and you crucified him for a couple of stinking headlines. You've done your bit. Stay out of his way.

- Lionel Stander (as Cornelius Cobb) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Jim Blandings: I mean the moment I turn my back, Bill Cole's driving you someplace or something.
Muriel Blandings: He's only being helpful.
Jim Blandings: I thought he was a lawyer. Why isn't he out suing somebody?

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Rufus T. Firefly: I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school.

- Groucho Marx (as Rufus T. Firefly) in Duck Soup (1933)

[Deeds and attorney Cedar shake hands in parting]
Longfellow Deeds: Even his hands are oily.

- Gary Cooper (as Longfellow Deeds) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Judge Monte Stanton: Pillsbury is guilty. As Attorney General of this state, it's my job to prosecute.
Willie Stark: Judge, you talk like Pillsbury was human. He isn't. He's a thing. You don't prosecute an adding machine if a spring goes busted and makes a mistake. You fix it. Well, I fixed him.

- Broderick Crawford (as Willie Stark) in All the King's Men (1949)

Lawyer: Tell us what you know, I said! Never mind what you think!
Mr. Hemingway: Excuse me, boss. I ain't no lawyer. I can't talk without thinkin'.

- Fred 'Snowflake' Toones (as Mr. Hemingway) in The Mayor of Hell (1933)

Jerry: Oh he’s something fierce. I walked in and all I said was ‘Mellow Greetings Yukie Dukie” and he almost blew a fuse.
Richard Nugent: Well, what’s wrong with that? Sounds okay to me.
Jerry: Oh I don’t know, I guess he’s been around lawyers so long, he’s forgotten how people talk.

- Johnny Sands (as Jerry) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)