“To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.”
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 41 (Nook Edition)
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Book I, satire iv, p. 18
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires

“The solemn fop; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.”
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 299.

Turner v. Eyles (1803), 3 Bos..& Pull. 460, 461.

“An English Court cannot judge by the light of nature.”
Hyman v. Helm (1883), L. R. 24 C. D. 544.

The Beast of Property (1884)

When he appeared in the Second Judges Case in the the Supreme Court Nariman which he won.
Fali S. Nariman, ‘Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography

“When judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.”
Said while travelling to California, having been advised to arm himself while there (1889); reported in J.K. Hoyt, The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), p. 129.