Robert Bolt
Robert Bolt
Robert Oxton Bolt, CBEwas 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth15 August 1924
occupation dangerous
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
men giving soul
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
believe ideas mind
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
hero humility angel
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.
lying men half
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
men light law
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.
men names misuse
I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
book gestures morality
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.