Quotes by Robert Bolt

About Robert Bolt:

Robert Oxton Bolt was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

Robert Bolt

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

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

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

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...

Robert Bolt

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

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

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.

Robert Bolt

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Robert Bolt

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Robert Bolt

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Bolt
  • DescriptionEnglish playwright
  • BornAugust 15, 1924
  • DiedFebruary 20, 1995
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Playwright; Writer
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire