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 Copy Share Image
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 country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“My master Thomas More would give anything to anyone. Some say that’s good and some say that’s bad, but I say he can’t help… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“More Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper I’d cut down every law… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“Have patience, Margaret, and trouble not thyself. Death comes for us all; even at our birth—death does but stand aside a little. And every… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.” — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
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