George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.