Taste in music Quotes by Robert Bolt

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

— Robert Bolt

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

— Robert Bolt

“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

“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

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

— Robert Bolt

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