Barristers Quotes:

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Equality, Barristers, Should, Sweepers

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

topic: Doctors, Serious Illness, Barristers

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams”, p.47

topic: Truth, Literature, Barristers

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

- John Keats

source: John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.263, Harvard University Press

topic: Thinking, Class, Monsters, Barristers, Best Lawyer

I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

- Rebecca Hall

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Fire, People, Legal Profession, Barristers

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

- Robert H. Jackson

topic: Taken, Men, Self, Barristers

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Broken, Legs, London, Barristers

Sometimes I get so tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like a barrister and twists them. I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realise that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud, I say to myself silently and write it here.

- Graham Greene

source: "The end of the affair".

topic: Writing, Tired, I Love Him, Barristers, Tired Of Trying

""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

topic: Girl, Attitude, Humorous, Wild Free, Advancing

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1884). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.72

topic: Law, Rays, Would Be, Limes, Ray Of Hope

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

- Jenny Eclair

topic: Sibling, Thinking, Circles, Barristers

This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Spiritual, Wall, Children, Airline Pilots, Spiritual Education

Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows nothing of `long ways for marry as will', an heir apparent, very awkward; which of these will cast a favourable eye upon me I don't know.

- Elizabeth Montagu

source: Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). “Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

topic: Eye, Men, Long, Squires, Barristers

But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quickening my step and when it stopped alongside me I could stand it no longer. "My father's a cop and he'll kill you," I screeched without looking. "No, he's a barrister," I heard Michael Andretti say in a calm voice, "and he'll kill you if you don't get into this car.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Father, Voice, Car, Barristers, Quickening