Bones Quote by Maxim Gorky

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is…

— Anonymous

The law of England is a law of liberty .

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state…

— George Orwell

“You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word…

— Derek Raymond

“Mr Horsefry was a youngish man, not simply running to fat but vaulting, leaping and diving towards obesity. He had acquired at thirty an…

— Terry Pratchett

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

— A. P. Herbert

“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.”

— Grant Allen

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

— George Bernard Shaw

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is…

— H. Rider Haggard

“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down…

— Bernard Cornwell

A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects…

— Bill Bailey

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in…

— Charles Babbage