Unwritten Law Quotes

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

There is honour even among thieves.

Never will I permit a written sheet of paper to come between our God in heaven and this land ... to rule us with its paragraphs and supplant the old, sacred loyalty.

The law of cases of necessity is not likely to be well furnished with precise rules; necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases, is likewise legal; it is not to be considered as matter of surprise, therefore, if much instituted rule is not to be found on such subjects.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

There is sort of an unspoken 'no skateboarding' clause on tour that I break pretty often.