Quotes by Robert Bolt - Page 1

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
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Dangerous
Occupation
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Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
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Death
Kings
Us
He
Even
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Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
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Good Marriage
Heaven
Made
Marriages
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I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?
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Breathing
Nice
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I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
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Men
Misuse
Names
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Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!
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Excellent
Music Is
Taste In Music
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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
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Men
Giving
Soul
Wales
Man Soul World
Profits
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When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
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Men
Hands
Self
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Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
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Book
Gestures
Morality
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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
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Believe
Ideas
Mind
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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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Beer
Good Luck
Rain
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The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
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Men
Half
Lying
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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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Chaos
Country
Sake
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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.
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Birthday
Death
Smile
Doe
Dying
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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 day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt / Playwright
Death
Birth
Looks
Next
Stand
Aside
Somewhat
Draw
Every Day
Towards
Himself
Muses
Nigh
Whether
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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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Men
Law
Light
Citizen
Walk
Instrument
Safely
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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 King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?
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Kings
Men
Earth
Thinking
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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 the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!
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Anchors
Fishing
Wind
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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 for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.
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Able
Firsts
Greedy
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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 cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Robert Bolt / Playwright
Blow
Country
Cutting
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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 like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.
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Angel
Hero
Humility
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