Law quotes

“- Chief Painter: When are you gonna start talking straight?
- Michael Shayne: Not until my attorney gets out of law school!”
Donald MacBride - Chief Painter
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

“I have one simple belief. That the law is the only thing that's capable of making people equal. Now you may think that Mark Blackwell is white trash, and he may very well have been. But in the eyes of the state, his life matters. I'm going to impale your client on a first degree murder charge. And you get a front row seat.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Dwight Dickham

“Someone has taken justice and hidden it in the law.”
Hal Holbrook - Judge Benjamin Caulfield

“- Horace King: I think you really should go on vacation.
- Harry Callahan: Forget it. I never take a vacation.
- Horace King: Well either that or quit.
- Harry Callahan: That's good idea right there. I really should quit. Then I can handle the law my own way.”
Albert Popwell - Horace King
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“You have just said goodbye to oxygen. You silly, stupid cop. You refused me. I offer you the keys to a kingdom and you tell me you're an officer of the law? I am the law! Me!”

Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice

“- Patrick Hale: Mr. President, according to the law, we're supposed to be equal.
- President Lockwood: We are, only some of us are more equal than others. George Orwell.”
Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale
George Grizzard - President Lockwood

“Ms. Alvarez, forty-eight hours ago my husband's penis was in another woman's mouth. I don't think there's anything in the law that can help me with that.”
Caroline Goodall - Susan Hendler

“- Sheriff Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace: I am the law. Don't you understand, I represent the law.
- Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald: Well piss on you, and piss on your law.”
Ernest Borgnine - Sheriff Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace
Kris Kristofferson - Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald

“Well listen, I understand attorney-client privilege. I understand all the legal gamesmanship and I understand that's how you make your living, but I'm talking to you about something else, the security of your country.”
Scott Shepherd - Hoffman

“The law and justice are two entirely different matters.”
Aidan Quinn - Nick Barron

“Hate to tell you this, buddy, but you have to wear clothes to work. There's a law or something.”
Tom Cruise - Steve Randle

“If Esperanza gets on that plane and makes it to a country that has no extradition treaties, we're fucked.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane

- Chief of Police: If I see you two back in here under arrest again, then I seriously will charge you with disturbing the law!
- Felix Ungar: Don't you mean "disturbing the peace"?
- Chief of Police: No, it's only the law you're disturbing.

Richard Riehle - Chief of Police
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“- Bligh: Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty.
- Christian: I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea.”

Charles Laughton - Bligh
Clark Gable - Christian

“- Engelberg: You're not supposed to have open liquor in the car. It's against the law.
- Coach Morris Buttermaker: So is murder, Engleberg. Now put that back before you get me in real trouble.”
Gary Lee Cavagnaro - Engelberg
Walter Matthau - Coach Morris Buttermaker

“- Gillian Owens: Is he cute?
- Sally Owens: Yeah, he's... nice... in a very penal code sort of way, yeah.”

Nicole Kidman - Gillian Owens
Sandra Bullock - Sally Owens

“I'm going to talk to you about the God damn law. We serve the law. We honor the law! And sometimes, Counselor, we obey the law. But, Counselor, this is not one of those times.”
Tom Aldredge - Herb Myerson

“- Elliot Carver: Mr. Wallace, call the president. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
- Tom Wallace: Inspired, sir.
- Elliot Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
- Tom Wallace: Consider him slimed.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver
Michael G. Wilson - Tom Wallace

“- Kate Veatch: White? What are you doing here? How do you know where I live?
- White Goodman: It's called the Freedom of Information Act, Kate. The hippies finally got something right! Ha ha! Just kidding. But not really.”
Christine Taylor - Kate Veatch
Ben Stiller - White Goodman

“I am a woman of the law. And there are lots of laws. But if they don't offer us justice, then they aren't laws! They are just lines drawn in the sand by men who would stand on your back for power and glory.”
Jessica Alba - Sartana

“There's only one law in the West: the law of blood and bullets. It's either shoot or be shot.”
Groucho Marx - S. Quentin Quale

“I remember when legal meant lawful. Now it means loophole.”
Charles Bronson - Leo Kessler

“After centuries of conflict, a truce was forged. Witches would be allowed to live and govern themselves if they followed one strict rule, that magic never be used against humans. But a truce is a fragile thing.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dolan 36th

“Laws change. Universal truths are constant. What is true and right is true and right for all. White and black alike.”

Brad Pitt - Bass