“ Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful. ”
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
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.
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.