Look here, sir, tell menomoreunnecessary lies. Suchlies as your attorneyadvised you are necessary for the presentation of your fraudulent case I will listen to though I shall decide against you whatever you swear, Addison but if you tell me another unnecessary lie, I'll put you in the dock.

-Adams,Judge Richard
Presiding over Limerick County Court. Quoted in  A M Sullivan Old Ireland.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

-Astell, Mary
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

   When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

-Bailey, F(rancis) Lee
  In the Los  Angeles Times, 9  Jan.

But had I wist, before I kiss'd, That love had been sae ill to win. I'd lock'd my heart in a case o'gowd, And pinn'd it wi'a siller pin.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', stanza 4.

We doctors know a hopeless case ifölisten: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1, no.14.

The casehas, insome respects, beennot entirelydevoid of interest.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'A Case of Identity'.

   Now gae your wa'söTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunöthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

-Ferber, Edna
  'To My Auld Breeks'.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

-Gay,John
  Fables,'The Hare and Many Friends', l.41.

   The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

-Homans, George C
  Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

I got a terrible case of the Fountainblues. 426

-Huxtable, Ada Louise ne¤  e Landman
  On Miami Beach. In the NewYork Times,15 Oct.

Youdon't lead by pointing and telling peoplesomeplace to go.You lead by going to that place and making a case.

-Kesey, Ken Elton
  Interview in Esquire,  Jun.

The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from thesphere of practical politicsand put underaglasscase in the South Kensington Museum, labelled 'Extinct', the better for everyone.

-Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
  West  African Studies.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Autumn'.

Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni. Avictorious case pleased the gods, but a lost one Cato.

-Lucan full name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Pharsalia, bk.1,1.126.

A test case of US capacity to help a nation meet a Communist 'war of liberation'.

-McNamara, Robert Strange
  Of the Vietnam War. Quoted in N Sheehan The Pentagon Papers.

A Suitable Case forTreatment.

-Mercer, David
  Play title.

This is no case of petty right or wrong That politicians or philosophers Can judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hot With love of Englishmen, to please newspapers.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  'This Is No Case of Petty Right OrWrong'.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for the blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.

   That vessel in which the powers of steam are to be employed to work the engine, which is called the Cylinder in common fire engines, and which I call the SteamVessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept ashot asthesteamthat entersit; first, by enclosing it ina case of wood, oranyother materialsthat transmit heat slowly; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies; and thirdly, by suffering neither water noranyother substance colder thansteam to enter and touch it during that time.

-Watt,James
  Specification of patent, 5 Jan, for a new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines.

Doyouknow,Mr Hopper, dear Agatha and Iaresomuch interested in Australia. It must be so pretty with all the dear littlekangaroosflying about. Agatha has found iton the map.What a curious shape it is! Just like a large packing case.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Duchess of Berwick to Mr Hopper. LadyWindermere's Fan, act 2.