Formal Law

Famous quotes containing the words formal and/or law:

    “The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Who does not know history’s first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)