I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical, nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's, which is politic.( As You Like It , 4.1.97), Jaques to Rosalind

Push him out of doors;And let my officers of such a natureMake an extent upon his house and lands:Do this expediently and turn him going.( As You Like It , 3.1.16), Duke Frederick to Oliver

TOUCHSTONE. Wast ever in court, shepherd? CORIN No, truly. TOUCHSTONE Then thou art damned.CORIN Nay, I hope. TOUCHSTONE Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side. CORIN For not being at court? Your reason?TOUCHSTONE Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest good manners; if thou never sawest good manners, then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd. CORIN Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court. ( As You Like It , 3.2.30) * manners = morals.

Why, may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he suffer this mad knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?( Hamlet , 5.1.97), Hamlet to Horatio * quiddities - quibbles; petty distinctions. From Latin quid, meaning what.

Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparentthat thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweetwag, shall there be gallows standing in England whenthou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it iswith the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.( 1 Henry IV , 1.2.54), Falstaff to Prince Hal

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;Between two blades, which bears the better temper: Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye; I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.( 2 Henry VI , 2.4.17), Warwick to Lords

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.( 2 Henry VI , 4.2.59), Dick the Butcher to Jack Cade

All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen, They call false caterpillars, and intend their death.( 2 Henry VI , 4.4.36), Messenger to Henry VI

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. May he not do it by fine and recovery? DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the lost hair of another man.( The Comedy of Errors , 2.2.71)

When law can do no right,Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,For he that holds his kingdom holds the law.( King John , 3.1.189), Constance to Cardinal Pandulph

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave.( King Lear , 2.2.14), Kent