Law Quotes by William Shakespeare

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

— William Shakespeare

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

— William Shakespeare

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

— William Shakespeare

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

— William Shakespeare

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living,…

— William Shakespeare

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and…

— William Shakespeare

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

— William Shakespeare

That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

— William Shakespeare

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

— William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

— William Shakespeare

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

— William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

— William Shakespeare

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants…

— William Shakespeare

To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

— William Shakespeare

His (Cardinal ) own opinion was his law

— William Shakespeare

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

— William Shakespeare

Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the…

— William Shakespeare

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and…

— William Shakespeare

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

— William Shakespeare

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself…

— William Shakespeare

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

— William Shakespeare

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

— William Shakespeare

I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance…

— William Shakespeare

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

— William Shakespeare

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep…

— William Shakespeare