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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than
plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,
integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Judicature
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Preface to Brissot's Address (vol. V, p. 67)
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the
crooked cord of discretion.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Preface to Brissot's Address (vol. V, p. 67)
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Preface to Brissot's Address (vol. V, p. 67)
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A justice with grave justices shall sit;
He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Birth of the Squire (l. 77)
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Art thou a magistrate? then be severe:
If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,
Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier,
Chase brave employments with a naked sword
Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have
If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Church Porch (st. 15)
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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
[Lat., Male verum examinat omnis
Corruptus judex.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (II, 2, 8)
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So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
Lie still without a fee.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Volpone (act I, sc. 1)
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A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay
it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general
practice.
[Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est
de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur
metier.]
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
Source: Les Caracteres
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Half as sober as a judge.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Maxon
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I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Maxon
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There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of
few.
[It., Bisogna che i giudici siano assai, perche pochi sempre
fanno a modo de' pochi.]
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli)
Source: Dei Discorsi (I, 7)
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The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a
lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not to hear a
damned word he says.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli)
Source: Dei Discorsi (I, 7)
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My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been
stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to
him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures,
dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the
perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii,
and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my
three goats.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. VI, ep. 19)
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I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two
thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a
thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was
lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more,
Sextus, as I had to blush for you.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. VIII, ep. 18)
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The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the
facts.
[Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum
Quaerere.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Tristium (I, 1, 37)
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Rape of the Lock (canto III, l. 21)
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Since twelve honest men have decided the cause,
And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.
Author: William Pulteney
Source: The Honest Jury, in the "Craftsman", vol. 5, 337, refers to Sir Philip Yorke's prosecution of "Craft
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If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
[Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Medea (CXCIV)
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Therefore I say again
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
I hold my most malicious for and think not
At all a friend to truth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Katherine at II, iv)
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Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Katherine at III, i)
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O, let her brother live:
Thieves for the robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More nor less to others paying
Than by self-offenses weighing.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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To offend and judge are distinct offices,
And of opposed natures.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at II, ix)
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It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
You know the law, your exposition
Hath been most sound.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i)
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