An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

I really enjoy spending time at home.

You don't have to apologize for being feminine in a male space.

We can't be fighting everybody at one time.

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky.

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.