judges quotes

   Oh wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threw me in front of the Judges 84 And my silly old collarbone's bust.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Hunter Trails'.

Political economy thus does not recognize the unoccupied worker, the working man so far as he is outside this work relationship. Swindlers, thieves, beggars, the unemployed, the starving, poverty- stricken and criminal working man, are figures which do not exist for political economy, but only for other eyes; fordoctors, judges,grave-diggers,beadles,etc.Theyare ghostly figures outsidethe domain of political economy.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  Collected in T B Bottomore (trans and ed) Early Writings (1964), p.137^9.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine.

- Alexander Pope
  The Rape of the Lock, canto 3, l.21^2.

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so.

- SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
  The Oxford Book of EnglishVerse, preface.

'Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly On a pale and anxious crowd, Through the court, and round the judges thronging thickly, With prayers they dare not speak aloud Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar You can see them through the gloom In the pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are Awaiting their death-doom.

-Jane Francesca ne  e Elgee Wilde
'The Brothers'.