LAWYER in Classic Quotes

1  His father was a lawyer like Atticus, only much younger.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

2  As the Cunninghams had no money to pay a lawyer, they simply paid us with what they had.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  Tricking lawyers like Atticus Finch took advantage of him all the time with their tricking ways.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

4  As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

5  Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

6  We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

7  I remembered something he had said about Judge Taylor's ex cathedra remarks sometimes exceeding his duty, but that few lawyers ever did anything about them.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

8  But Atticus had once told us that in Judge Taylor's court any lawyer who was a strict constructionist on evidence usually wound up receiving strict instructions from the bench.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

9  When Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning, Jem finally realized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

11  In long equity hearings, especially after dinner, he gave the impression of dozing, an impression dispelled forever when a lawyer once deliberately pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

12  I saw something only a lawyer's child could be expected to see, could be expected to watch for, and it was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21

13  I've heard that lawyers' children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17