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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.