Quotes Duex...

Some more memorable lawyer lines to ponder. Hmmm.. two posts of movie quotes on the blog? Must be finals week!

"I'm going to tell you something that I learned when I was your age. I'd prepared a case and old man White said to me, "How did you do?" And, uh, I said, "Did my best." And he said, "You're not paid to do your best. You're paid to win." And that's what pays for this office... pays for the pro bono work that we do for the poor... pays for the type of law that you want to practice... pays for my whiskey... pays for your clothes... pays for the leisure we have to sit back and discuss philosophy as we're doing tonight. We're paid to win the case."

“You come in here with a skull full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer.”

“Now gentlemen, in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal. I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system. That's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality.”

"Oh, I forgot. You were sick the day they taught law at law school."

"An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned into snakes or the parting of the waters."

"I was your first, you know that, Arthur? I was your first client, you broke cherry on me."

"You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts."

And finally in the category of good advice (present company excluded, of course):

"Oh, sweetheart, you don't need law school. Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious. And you, button, are none of those things."