Key quotes from A Man for All Seasons
Friendship Quotes
KING: Now, listen to this. Sit down. Be seated. No courtship, Thomas. You're my friend, are you not? MORE: Your Majesty. KING: Thank God I have a friend for my chancellor. Readier to be friend, I t...
Justice and Judgment Quotes
MARGARET: Father, that man's bad! MORE: There's no law against that. ROPER: There is. God's law!MORE: Then God can arrest him.ALICE: While you talk, he's gone!MORE: Go he should, if he were the Dev...
Marriage Quotes
WOLSEY: God's death, he means it. That thing out there, at least she's fertile.MORE: But she's not his wife. WOLSEY: No, Catherine's his wife... and she's barren as a brick. Are you going to pray f...
Power Quotes
WOLSEY: I think we might influence the decision of His Holiness. MORE: By argument? WOLSEY: Argument certainly, and pressure. MORE: Pressure, applied to Church houses, Church property? WOLSEY: Pres...
Principles Quotes
MORE: I can't give in, Howard. Our friendship's more mutable than that. DUKE: Oh, the one fixed point in the world of turning friendship... is that Thomas More won't give in. MORE: To me it has to...
Religion Quotes
MORE: I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties... they lead their country by a short route to chaos. And we shall have my prayers to fall...