Shakespeare Justice Quotes

#1. Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

William Shakespeare

#2. It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

Adrian Tomine

#3. I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. "Katniss ... he's still trying to keep you alive." To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.

Suzanne Collins

#4. Justice always whirls in equal measure.

William Shakespeare

#5. Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

William Shakespeare

#6. And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.

Ally Carter

#7. Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

William Shakespeare

#8. The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,
Acting in many ways.

William Shakespeare

#9. A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

William Shakespeare

#10. It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

William Shakespeare

#12. They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

William Shakespeare

#13. The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

William Shakespeare

#14. I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

#15. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

#16. ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.

William Shakespeare

#17. I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Billy Corgan

#18. I beg for justice, which you, Prince, must give. Romeo killed Tybalt; Romeo must not live.

William Shakespeare

#19. The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Chris Rock

#21. Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#22. Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

William Shakespeare

#23. Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

William Shakespeare

#24. If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

Philip K. Dick

#25. Success is not an accident.

Stephen Curry

#26. In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. . .
(Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)

William Shakespeare

#27. Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

William Shakespeare

#28. Tremble, thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes
Unwhipped of justice.

William Shakespeare