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
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.

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
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.

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

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

Stephen Gardiner
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.

Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey
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".

When we are reduced to observation Science crawls.