Author: William Bernhardt

Cites

• Bruce Feirstein (1)
  • IN: Capitol Offense (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Anne Frank (1)
  • IN: Capitol Betrayal (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world
    FROM: NULL, (None), Quote, Germany
• Plato (1)
  • IN: The Game Master (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Will Rogers (1)
  • IN: Double Jeopardy (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Thomas Jones (1)
  • IN: Double Jeopardy (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Lord Byron (1)
  • IN: Cruel Justice (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yet in my lineaments they trace some features of my father's face
    FROM: Parisina, (1816), Poem, UK
• Emily Dickinson (3)
  • IN: Criminal Intent (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This world is not conclusion; A sequel stands beyond, Invisible, as music, but positive as sound. It beckons and it baffles; Philosophies don't know, And through a riddle at the last, Sagacity must go.
    FROM: #373, (1896), Poem, US
  • IN: Capitol Murder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Much Madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye- Much sense the starkest madness.
    FROM: #620, (1890), Poem, US
  • IN: Capitol Threat (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lad of Athens, faithful be To Thyself, And Mystery- All the rest is Perjury-
    FROM: "Lad of Athens, faithful be", (1768), Poem, US
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: Perfect Justice (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point (The Heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing)
    FROM: Pensees, (1670), Book, France
• Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: Murder One (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grows for ever and for ever.
    FROM: The Princess, (1847), Poem, UK
• Ty King (1)
  • IN: Capitol Murder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love makes you do the wacky.
    FROM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 Episode 2, (1997), TV Show, US
• George Meredith (1)
  • IN: Hate Crime (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
    FROM: Modern Love, (1891), Book, UK
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: Dark Eye (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And all my days are trances; And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances…
    FROM: To One in Paradise, (1984), Poem, US
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Death Row (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rosalind: I’ll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal… Orlando: Who stays it still withal? Rosalind: With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term and term, and then they perceive not how time moves.
    FROM: As You Like It (III, ii), (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Blind Justice (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice Obscure the show of evil?
    FROM: The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene ii Prologue, (1600), NULL, UK
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I couldn’t have a better friend. Kachowl Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
    FROM: The Second Coming, (1920), Poem, Ireland
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: Capitol Conspiracy (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Constitutions are merely the lengthened shadows of men. They are invented by men to protect themselves from one another. When they fail to do that, when the fate of human society is at stake, more drastic measures must be taken for society’s own sake.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Henry David Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Dark Justice (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The question is not what you look at, but what you see.T
    FROM: Henry David Thoreau, Journals, November 16, 1830, (1830), NULL, US
• Harry Emerson Fosdick (1)
  • IN: Midnight Before Christmas (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
    FROM: Riverside Sermons, (1958), Essay, US
• Benjamin Disraeli (1)
  • IN: Deadly Justice (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
    FROM: Contarini Fleming, (1832), Novel, UK
• Charles Lamb (1)
  • IN: Deadly Justice (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
    FROM: The Old Benches of the Inner Temple, (1823), Essay, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Naked Justice (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
    FROM: Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11, (100), Bible, NULL
• Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1)
  • IN: Extreme Justice (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There only was one choice…” The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one’s own self.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Edmund Burke (1)
  • IN: Silent Justice (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A good person once said, that where mystery begins, religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
    FROM: A Vindication of Natural Society, (1756), Essay, Ireland
• Zeno the Stoic (1)
  • IN: Primary Justice (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Among the virtues, some are primary and some are subordinate to these. The following are primary: wisdom, courage, justice.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Book, Cyprus
• John Mortimer (1)
  • IN: Primary Justice (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is the curse, as well as the fascination of the law, that lawyers get to know more than is good for them about their fellow human beings.
    FROM: NULL, (1979), NULL, UK
• Finley Peter Dunne (1)
  • IN: Blind Justice (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They say Justice is bloind: That she is. And deef and doom and has a wooden leg, as well.
    FROM: Mister Dooley, (1926), Fictional, US
• Paddy Chayefsky (1)
  • IN: Justice Returns (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on the ministers and generals, or warmongering imperialists, or all the other banal bogeys. It's the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers.
    FROM: The Americanization of Emily, (1964), Film, US