Robert Bolt Short Quotes

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

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

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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world…But for Wales—!

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The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

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I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

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Cromwell: You brought yourself to where you are now.
More: Yes. Still, in another sense, I was brought.

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When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

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Thomas More Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps a great one.
Rich And if I was, who would know it?
More You, your pupils, God.

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When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again.

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Roper: This was not practical; this was moral!
More: Oh, now I understand you, Will. Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books.

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Jailer: You understand my position, sir, there's nothing I can do; I'm a plain, simple man and just want to keep out of trouble.
More: Oh, Sweet Jesus! These plain, simple men!

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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 is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely.

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