Charles Macklin quotes
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“You are as welcome as the flowers in May.”
-- Charles MacklinSource : Charles Macklin (1825). “Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825”, p.15
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“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.”
-- Charles MacklinSource : Love a la Mode act 2, sc. 1 (1759)
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“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. - Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874.”
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“Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.”
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“Every tub must stand upon its bottom.”
-- Charles MacklinSource : "The Man of the World". Comedy by Charles Macklin, Act i. Sc. 2, 1781.
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“My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ***** thick ***** they can.”
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“The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.”
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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Source : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
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