top of page
"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Law quotes

"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."

"Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful."

"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"

"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
Explore more quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."

"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."

"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."

"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."
bottom of page