Play · Comedy (play)Good counselors lack no clients.William ShakespeareMeasure for Measure · 1616★ 6.9
Satire · Political literatureThey have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.Thomas MoreUtopia · 1516★ 4.5
Satire · Travel writingI said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels · 1726★ 4.5
Travel writingA lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides · 1773★ 4.4