Best 362 quotes in «court quotes» category

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

You never know with juries. I’d take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

A Court of equity knows its own province.

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" Pretty much.

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

Chance favors only those who court her.

Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

Everyone fears and courts his own demon.