Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Melvin Belli

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American lawyer Melvin Belli.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Melvin Belli

Melvin Mouron Belli was a prominent United States lawyer, writer, and actor known as "The King of Torts" and by insurance companies as "Melvin Bellicose". He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, The Rolling Stones, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha Mitchell, Maureen Connolly, Lana Turner, Tony Curtis, and Mae West. During his legal career, he won over $600 million in damages for his clients. He was also the attorney for Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.
I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.
A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. — © Melvin Belli
A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.
Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.
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