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Edward Coke
18 quotes
“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'.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Case of Swans, 7 Rep. 15, 17 (1592).
“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1602 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twyne's Case (1602).
“Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 77 Eng. Rep. 250 (1605).
“Law is the safest helmet.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1606 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inscription in rings given by Coke to several of his friends on June 20, 1606, in anticipation of his judicial investiture; reported in Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke (1826) p…
“The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1604 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Semayne's Case, 77 Eng. Rep. 194, 195; 5 Co. Rep. 91, 195 (K.B. 1604).
Also quoted by: Sir Edward Coke
“They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1612 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.; 77 Eng Rep 960, 973 (K.B. 1612).
Also quoted by: Sir Edward Coke
“When poor England stood alone, and had not the access of another kingdom, and yet had more and as potent enemies as now it hath, and yet the King of England prevailed.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the committee of the House of Commons (2 April 1628)
“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the committee of the House of Commons (20 May 1628)
Also quoted by: Sir Edward Coke
“Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The gladsome light of jurisprudence.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
Also quoted by: Sir Edward Coke
“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
“Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, part 62a (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832).
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the …
Also quoted by: Sir Edward Coke
“A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1628 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute, p. 162. The exact translation of the Latin p…
“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.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1391 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Institutes of the Laws of England, Second Part, vol. 1 (1642), Notes to Ch. XXIX of the Charter [Magna Carta], paragraph 1391
“Melius est omnia mala pati quam malo concentire.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J. W. Jones, A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which occur in Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England', &c. (Philadelphia, PA: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co, 1889) p. 5
“Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source