E.W. Kenyon Quotes

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

There is no magic in words.

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.

A Court of equity knows its own province.

I'm not people, I only eat them.

Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

I wasn't born, I was unleashed.

I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

still waters run deep. ~Tabitha

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

Patience to the spider

Don't let those people steal your day

Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

Even if I were lying on the sun itself, I would be freezing there without you. (Zarek)

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE! Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.

He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.

Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]