Quotes by 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
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
– 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
The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
– Robert Bolt