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

- Robert Bolt

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

- 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

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

- 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…

- Robert Bolt

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

- Robert Bolt

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

- Robert Bolt

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

- Robert Bolt

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

- Robert Bolt