A Quote by Charles Macklin

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Charles Macklin

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Charles Macklin
Irish - Dramatist
September 26, 1690 - July 11, 1797

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

H. L. Mencken

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Charles Macklin

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

L. M. Boyd

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

John Richard Green

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

John Arbuthnot

There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

Spike Lee

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Jack Canfield

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

Tupac Shakur

The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

Anuj

Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

Tupac Shakur

Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.

Andre Dirrell

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

Lucretius

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

David

'Hocus Pocus' has a great following and was a great part of when I was a kid.

Sean Murray

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

John Steinbeck

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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