Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This countr….

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water..

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos..

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books..

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists..

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it..

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind..

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation..

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place..

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes..

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!.

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather tur….

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next h….

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or a….

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it roun….

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps….

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who….