Law Quotes

• "And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, ii)
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• "Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense? Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? What lawful quest have given their verdict up Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death Before I be convict by course of law? To threaten me with death is most unlawful: I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,] That you depart, and lay no hands on me. The deed you undertake is damnable."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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• "I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Bolingbroke at II, iii)
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• "Sir, I shall not be slack, in sign whereof, Please ye we may convive this afternoon And quaff carouses to our mistress's health, And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, ii)
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• "It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established. 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And carry an error by the same example Will rush into the state. It cannot be."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Portia at III, ii)
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• "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?"
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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• "To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Portia at II, ix)
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• "We are for law. He dies."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (First Senator at III, v)
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• "O my lord, Press not a falling man too far! 'Tis virtue His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at III, ii)
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• "When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, i)
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• "Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself, And you of her, the bloody book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter After your own sense; yea, though our proper son Stood in your action."
  By: William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Duke of Venice at I, iii)
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• "We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror."
  By: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, i)
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• "We have strict statutes and most biting laws, The needful bits and curbs to headstrong jades, Which for this fourteen years we have let slip; Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey."
  By: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at I, iii)
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• "Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course, Before we enter his forbidden gates, To know his pleasure; and in that behalf; Bold of your worthiness, we single you As our best-moving fair solicitor."
  By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Princess of France at II, i)
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• "Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer--you gave me nothing for't."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
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• "Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Suffolk at II, iv)
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