Quotes About Contempt Of Court

#1. To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Honore De Balzac

#2. The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down." "Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.

Winston Graham

#3. JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

Mae West

#4. Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

Willem De Kooning

#5. An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Finley Peter Dunne

#6. The way, the truth and the life. You go on your way through life telling the truth.

Julian Barnes

#7. I cozied an apple in my hand and tried the weight of it against my palm, contemplating whether or not beaning a judge with half-rotten fruit would qualify as contempt of the court. Quite probably.

Rachel Heffington

#8. He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

Marya Hornbacher

#9. Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Bryant H. McGill

#10. The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;, and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.

Larry Wall

#11. Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."
He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him," he said.

Patricia Briggs