Top 36 Robert Bolt Quotes
#1. Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one.
Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?
Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.
Robert Bolt
#2. On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
Sharon Bolton
#3. When a man takes an oath ... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
Robert Bolt
#4. 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?
Robert Bolt
#6. I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
Robert Bolt
#7. I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
Park Chan-wook
#8. Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!
Robert Bolt
#9. 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.
Robert Bolt
#10. Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
Cesare Pavese
#12. 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
#13. 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.
Robert Bolt
#14. 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 Bolt
#15. I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!
Robert Bolt
#16. The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
James A. Baldwin
#17. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!
Steven Moffat
#18. Note that I avoid most "modern features" of C++, but inheritance and operator overloading are too useful for ray tracers to pass on.
Peter Shirley
#19. I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.
Neil Gaiman
#20. Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met,
or am likely to;
And, if you go ... Well, God knows why I suppose.
Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it!
Robert Bolt
#21. I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott
#22. Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
Robert Bolt
#23. The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
Robert Bolt
#24. For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales!
Robert Bolt
#25. Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
Marvin Minsky
#26. Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. Then came a volley of colorful abuse, delivered in such an imperious voice, at at such a volume, that Terentia's distant ancestor, who had commanded the Roman line against Hannibal at Cannae a century and a half before, must surely have sat bolt upright in his tomb.
Robert Harris
#28. The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.
Robert Bolt
#29. Have patience, Margaret, and trouble not thyself. Death comes for us all; 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. It is the law of nature and the will of God.
Robert Bolt
#30. My master Thomas More would give anything to anyone. Some say that's good and some say that's bad, but I say he can't help it - and that's bad ... because some day someone's going to ask him for something that he wants to keep; and he'll be out of practice
Robert Bolt
#31. Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
Robert Bolt
#32. I'm breathing ... are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?
Robert Bolt
#33. Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
Robert Bolt
#34. Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.
Robert Bolt
#35. I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.
David Ogilvy
#36. I told him something in my gut says I am the father of Mya's baby's, and it is a strong feeling too. I hope I'm wrong, but I know in my heart I'm not. I
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