Shyster Quotes

#1. To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#2. My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

Stephen Fry

#3. You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer.

Groucho Marx

#4. Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Seth Godin

#5. It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts ... nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

Raymond Chandler

#6. We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know?

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#7. Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.

Paul Auster

#8. The Executive has got to have a freer hand and be able to move quick in an emergency, and not be tied down by a lot of dumb shyster-lawyer congressmen taking months to shoot off their mouths in debates.

Sinclair Lewis

#9. You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

L. Ron Hubbard

#10. For once in my life, I was going to get through a situation with a little dignity. OK, I probably wasn't, but I would fake it as if my life depended on it.

Molly Harper

#11. Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

Craig Brown

#12. These kinds of lost, overeducated mama's boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and the other SHYSTER.

Gary Shteyngart