Quotes About Court

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

In some ways, the battlefield is more civilized than court," Lian said, somewhat wistfully. "A man's worth is exactly how much glory his actions bring to his general." Her tone hardened. "Here, a man's worth is calculated by what he says and by what others say about him.

IT IS customary for such as seek a Prince's favour, to present themselves before him with those things of theirs which they themselves most value, or in which they perceive him chiefly to delight.

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.

No one likes lawyers until you need one, at which point they assume the raiment of knights.

Charlie found himself affecting the Emperor's formal speech patterns, as if somehow he had been transported to a royal court where a nobleman was distinguished by the crumbs in his beard and the royal guard were not above licking their balls.

I would not have Drool reading Cicero or crafting clever riddles, but under my tutelage he had become more than fair at tumbling and juggling, could belch a song, and was, at court, at least as entertaining as a trained bear, with slightly less proclivity for eating the guests. With guidance, he would make a proper fool.

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

There has always been a certain conflict between justice and the law. HERBERT PELL

You took your time getting here, Ambassador," he said. "Don't blame me. You Elynes should have built your city closer to the library." "Now there's a good idea. I'll suggest it to the King next time I attend court." "You never attend court." "That's right." Tayend smiled.

The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.

And in that city Ferrante's rise began, at the outer edge of the Spanish court, where he learned that the virtue of sovereigns is their caprice, and Power is an insatiable monster, to be served with slavish devotion in order to snatch every crumb falling from that table.

Then Raghu's son, as if in sport, Before the thousands of the court, The weapon by the middle raised That all the crowd in wonder gazed.