Law Quotes

• "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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• "Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, Between two blades, which bears the better temper, Between two horses, which doth bear him best, Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Warwick at II, iv)
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• "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Butcher at IV, ii)
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• "Yea, and so used it that, were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent--But I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art King? and of resolution thus fubbed as it is with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do not thou, when thou art king, hand a thief."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at I, ii)
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• "(Other Clown:) But is this law? (Clown:) Ay marry, is't--crowner's quest law."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Other Clown & Clown at V, i)
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• "In the corrupted currents of this world Offense's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above. There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
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• "He hath resisted law; And therefore law shall scorn him further trial Than the severity of the public power, Which he so sets at nought."
  By: William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Sicinius at III, i)
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• "You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a forset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience."
  By: William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Menenius at II, i)
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• "Old father antic the law."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "There is a higher law than the Constitution."
  By: William Henry Seward, in a speech
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• "It is the act of the indolent not to know what he may lawfully do. It is praiseworthy to do what is becoming, and not merely what is lawful. [Lat., Inertis est nescire, quid liceat sibi. Id facere, laus est, quod decet; non, quod licet.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Octavia (CCCCLIII)
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• "He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just. [Lat., Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera, Aequum licet statuerit, haud aequus fuerit.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Medea (CXCIX)
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• "If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Medea (CXCIV)
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• "Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him."
  By: John Selden
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• "Equity judgeth with lenity, laws with extremity. In all moral cases, the reason of the law is the law."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "The law often allows what honor forbids. [Fr., La loi permet souvent ce que defend l'honneur.]"
  By: Bernard Joseph Saurin, Spartacus (III, 3)
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