dock quotes

Look here, sir, tell menomoreunnecessary lies. Suchlies as your attorneyadvised you are necessary for the presentation of your fraudulent case I will listen to though I shall decide against you whatever you swear, Addison but if you tell me another unnecessary lie, I'll put you in the dock.

-Judge Richard Adams
Presiding over Limerick County Court. Quoted in  A M Sullivan Old Ireland.

You have been acquitted bya Limerick jury, and you may now leave the dock without any other stain upon your character.

-Judge Richard Adams
Quoted in Maurice Healy  The Old Munster Circuit.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

- Nelson Algren
  Preface to reprint of Chicago: City On The Make (first published1951).

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
   Trio, The Mikado, act1.