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 indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos. - Robert Bolt
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
- Robert Bolt
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. - Robert Bolt
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. - Robert Bolt
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. - Robert Bolt
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! - Robert Bolt
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation. - Robert Bolt
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
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… - Robert Bolt
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…
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. - Robert Bolt
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists. - Robert Bolt
I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
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