But damn it, Thomas, look at those names. Norfolk: I'm not a scholar, as Master Cromwell never tires of pointing out, and frankly I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not.More: The law requires more than an assumption the law requires a fact. Norfolk: Then your reasons must be treasonable! If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man, the kind of man a man of conscience ought to destroy - and of course a bad man's blessing's not worth having. Rich: They seem odd alternatives, Secretary.Ĭromwell: Do they? That's because you're not a man of conscience. Cromwell: The King's a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.Cromwell: You brought yourself to where you are now.A complicated gesture learned from books. Roper: This was not practical this was moral!.More: Oh? And, when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and, if you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake. Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that! More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Robert Oxton Bolt ( Aug– February 20, 1995) was an English playwright and screenwriter.
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