10 Quotes from A Time for Mercy book by John Grisham

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 10 quotes from A Time for Mercy book by John Grisham that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

A Time for Mercy Quotes

They taught us in law school that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.
Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.
To be a real lawyer, first you grow a thick skin, and second you tell everybody but your clients to go to hell.
A small-town lawyer is dead if he alienates his judges.
When you have no future, you live in the past.
The courtroom is owned by the taxpayers. So act like you own the place.
A child can't chase a father who has no time for him.
It's not the cases you take that make you, it's the cases you don't take.
It's what being a lawyer is all about. Being in the courtroom, in front of a jury, is like being in the arena, or on the field. The competition is fierce. The stakes are high. The gamesmanship is intense. There will be a winner and a loser.
Bad lawyers tried to trick witnesses, or pin them down, or confuse them, all in an effort to win the deposition. Good lawyers preferred to win at trial, and used depositions as a means to gather information that could be used to set traps later. Great lawyers skipped depositions altogether, and orchestrated beautiful ambushes in front of the jury.