Barrister Quotes

#1. This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.

Hilary Mantel

#2. It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared.

Louise Doughty

#3. I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.

Cherie Blair

#4. There was a time when I fancied myself as a barrister but it takes years to qualify and even then you can end up earning less than $10,000 a day. So when I saw an advertisement for a course to become a barista I decided to settle for that.

Michael McGirr

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

Dorothy Parker

#6. If you're looking for a way to break the contract, I do not know. You'd need a demon or a barrister to answer that.

T. Kingfisher

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

Anthony Trollope

#8. Showing the skills more of a high-school debater than a barrister, Brandis blustered in the Senate that 'people do have a right to be bigots'.

Peter Van Onselen

#9. I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'

John Bercow

#10. I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

Caryl Churchill

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

George Bernard Shaw

#14. Love is of no value in a witness, as a barrister ought to know

E. M. Forster

#15. 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

#16. Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

William Donaldson

#17. He listens well who takes notes.

Dante Alighieri

#18. It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

Jeff Lindsay

#19. My heart filled with endless praise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

Chester Brown

#21. I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

Sam Kinison