Robert Bolt

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__ lamenting. I__e lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you__e only just noticed, it can__ have been very important to you.

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

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!

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

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

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!