Chapter LAW to LEARNED of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LAW to LEARNED

LAW.—I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? but brother goeth to law with brother.

1 Corinthians, Chap. VI. Verses 5, 6. 1. But is this law? 2. Ay, marry is’t; crowner’s ’quest law.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (The Clowns, who are about to dig Ophelia’s grave.)

Thou art the worm and maggot of the law, bred in the bruis’d and rotten parts, and now are nourish’d in the same corruption that produc’d thee.

Farquhar.—The Twin Rivals, Act IV.

LAWS.—Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 386.

Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state,
Laws wise as Nature, and as fix’d as Fate.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 189.

LAWYERS.—Thou son of parchment—that may’st call
The pen thy father, and the ink thy mother,
The sand thy brother, and the wax thy sister,
And the good pillory thy cousin removed;
I say, learn reverence to thy betters.

Cartwright.—The Ordinary, Act III. Scene 5.

Never fear a lawyer in lace—
The lawyer that sets out in lace, always ends in rags.

Fielding.—Rape upon Rape, Act II. Scene 2.

I am going to the parliament;
You understand this bag: if you have any business
Depending there, be short, and let me hear it,
And pay your fees.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Little French Lawyer, Act II. Scene 1.

LAWYERS.—I know you lawyers can, with ease,
Twist words and meanings as you please;
That language, by your skill made pliant,
Will bend to favour every client;
That ’tis the fee directs the sense,
To make out either side’s pretence.

Gay.—Fable I. Part II.

The plainest case in many words entangling.

Baillie.—Legend of Lady Griseld.

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part II. Act IV. Scene 2. (Dick to Cade.)

A lawyer’s dealings should be just and fair,
Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Cowper.—Hope, Line 401.

But who shall act the honest lawyer?
’Tis a hard part, that.

Suckling.—The Sad One, Act III. Scene 4.