Edward Coke's Quotes

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.