Charles Lamb Quotes

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Charles Lamb

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• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Different
  • Girl

• These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Leader

• I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Up
  • True
  • Nature

• Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Running
  • Lawyer

• I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Father
  • Smart

• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Young
  • Lawyer
  • Sharks

• And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • May

• 'Lookit that,' he said. 'A lawyer who knows how to do something useful. That’s a miracle.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Miracle
  • Lawyer

• Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trust
  • Lawyer

• It may be that the jury would incline to regard a practising lawyer as a man of probity whose word was prima facie worthy of belief. But the belief of lawyers in their own probity is not universally shared, and there are those who believe them to be capable of almost any chicanery or sharp practice.

  

  Lawyer
  • Believe
  • May
  • Practice

• A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.

  

  Lawyer
  • Business
  • Small
  • Lawyer

• The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Business
  • Lawyer

• In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word 'experience' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. It is to be feared, however, that if the word is avoided the confusions of thought with which it has been associated may persist.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Experience

• When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Lawyer
  • Hats

• There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Father
  • College
  • Period

• If I had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, and gotten a country club membership, and then I would have killed myself.

  

  John Cleese
  • Country
  • Kids
  • House

• After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

  

  David Twohy
  • Movie

• WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well.

  

  Brian Acton
  • Value

• Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Moments
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Lawyer