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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers. -- Jenny Eclair
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. -- Anthony Trollope
[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister. -- Dorothy Parker
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were. -- Rebecca Hall
""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all. -- Robert H. Jackson

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