Robert Bolt Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

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

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

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

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

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

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

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 day or the next he will draw nigh.

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 important to you.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.