When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Robert BoltMorality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
Robert BoltEven 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.
Robert BoltThis 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.
Robert Bolt