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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE


The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

[Henry V, Part 2]

And do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

[The Taming of the Shrew]

The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed:
It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

[The Merchant of Venice]

Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

[Hamlet]

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?

[The Merchant of Venice]

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch, and not their terror.

[Measure for Measure]

The jury, on passing on the prisoner's life,
May, in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.

[Measure for Measure]

How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge as you are?

[Measure for Measure]

Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice, none of us
Should seek salvation: we do pray for mercy.

[The Merchant of Venice]

Good consellors lack no clients.

[Measure for Measure]