They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no so...
LORD EDWARD COKE Hell is paved with good intentions.
LORD EDWARD COKE Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks ...
LORD EDWARD COKE You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
LORD EDWARD COKE Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
LORD EDWARD COKE The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
LORD EDWARD COKE Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
LORD EDWARD COKE So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
LORD EDWARD COKE Hope is a waking dream.
LORD EDWARD COKE The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury...
LORD EDWARD COKE For a man's house is his castle.
LORD EDWARD COKE Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
EDWARD COKE The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and v...
EDWARD COKE Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
EDWARD COKE You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
EDWARD COKE Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
EDWARD COKE So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
EDWARD COKE I saw nothing but waters wap [lap] and waves wanne [come].
EDWARD COKE Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
EDWARD COKE How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
EDWARD COKE The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and v...
EDWARD COKE Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished
EDWARD COKE Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great
EDWARD COKE Everyone thirsteth after gaine
EDWARD COKE Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls
EDWARD COKE The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
EDWARD COKE Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which...
EDWARD COKE One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
EDWARD COKE The gladsome light of Jurisprudence.
EDWARD COKE Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
EDWARD COKE It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.
EDWARD COKE We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are t...
EDWARD COKE Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
EDWARD COKE Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
EDWARD COKE Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
EDWARD COKE For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betak...
SIR EDWARD COKE There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and ...
SIR EDWARD COKE Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
SIR EDWARD COKE One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
SIR EDWARD COKE We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
SIR EDWARD COKE In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
LORD EDWARD LYTTON Taste is the feminine of genius.
LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD The accident of an accident.
LORD EDWARD THURLOW The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
LORD EDWARD THURLOW May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm th...
LORD EDWARD THURLOW The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not sho...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different time...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can on...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink f...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two...
LORD EDWARD GREY (GREY OF FALLODON) Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
LORD MELBOURNE Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre...
LORD MELBOURNE Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ...
LORD HANSON Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
LORD BURLEIGH Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD