Robert Bolt Quotes

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• Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that…
• 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…
• I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!
• When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
• Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
• Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
• It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
• Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
• When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
• Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
• 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?…
• I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
• 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…
• 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…
• The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
• Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!
• I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?
• 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…
• 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…
• A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

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