Law Quote by Wendy Buonaventura

“Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the…

— Moriah Densley

“The law is a ass, Sir!”

— Charles Dickens

“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be…

— Jane Hamilton

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver…

— Melina Marchetta

“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as you have…

— Rex Stout

“If we want people to have respect for the law, then we must first make the law respectable, son.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

“I think that we should be men first and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for…

— George Orwell

“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent…

— Mary MacLane

“Justice knows no bias. It wears the blindfold of equality, serving the rich and the poor with unwavering impartiality. The rule of law stands…

— DON SANTO

“I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern…

— Edmund Wilson