John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

It is essential, when persons in trade come into this Court, that they should remember that the administration of equity is founded on perfect truth, and that if persons attempt to mislead the public by stating that which is not true, this …

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

The Court exercises its jurisdiction for the enforcement of the truth, and makes a man's acts square with his words, by compelling him to perform what he has undertaken.

If a man who makes to another person, upon a solemn occasion, an assertion, upon which that person acts, he lies under an obligation to make good his assertion.

The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.

The decisions of the House of Lords are binding on me and upon all the Courts except itself.

If a client be present in Court, and stand by and see his solicitor enter into terms of an agreement, and makes no objection whatever to it, he is not at liberty afterwards to repudiate it.

The duty of relieving his fellow creature in distress is imposed on the Christian irrespective of religious doctrines and tenets, and notwithstanding that the object of charity may worship God in an erroneous manner, but in that which he …

A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.

Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.