Edward Coke Quotes
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
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The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
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For a man's house is his castle.
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A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
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We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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Law is the safest helmet.
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In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.
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Common law is common right.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
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It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.
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The Law ... is perfection of reason.
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It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
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Reason is the life of the law.
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Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
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The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
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The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
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No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle.
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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
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There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
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Edward Coke
- Born: February 1, 1552
- Died: September 3, 1634
- Occupation: Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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