English Judge Quotes

Thomas Wolsey

Stephen Gardiner

John Fortescue

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen

John Eardley Wilmot

Ideas are free. But while the author confines them to his study, they are like birds in a cage, which none but he can have a right to let fly : for till he thinks proper to emancipate them, they are under his own dominion.

We cannot explore any mode of sentencing a man to imprisonment, who is imprisoned already, but by tacking one imprisonment to the other.

John Eardley Wilmot

Though the mere opinion of an Attorney- or Solicitor-General ought not to be cited, yet coupled with the fact, it may have some weight as showing the general sense of professional men.

William Henry Ashurst

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room—looking for a black hat—which isn't there.

Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen

One would much rather that twenty guilty persons should escape the punishment of death, than that one innocent person should be condemned and suffer capitally.

A very ingenious attempt to drive a coach-and-four through this Act of Parliament.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.

Mother brings a child late to contact by half-an-hour; father then requires an extra half-hour the next week. This is getting silly. If, in fact, the father does not see the child at all, of course he should see the child on another occasion, but there are fathers who actually add up the minutes and produce it and say "Now I should have so much more contact because I lost five minutes last week and ten minutes the week before".

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

When we are reduced to observation Science crawls.

John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton