John Grisham Quotes

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

The law is a horrible business.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

The declaration that any legal issue is "not an open question in a law school" is a declaration of war upon everything that a law school is. Most fundamentally, a law school is a place of intellectual inquiry, where the acceptability of ideas can only be determined by examining them.

Law is not a science, but is essentially empirical.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I will always love the law; no matter what, I'll always find ways to participate in the law.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.