Quotes by
Robert Oxton Bolt |
1924-1955 , British playwright
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 him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. | 6 quotes | 1,505 visits |
Quotations
| • | A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. 6 |
| • | The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. 6 |
| • | No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness. 5 |
| • | Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books. 4 |
| • | Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation. 2 |
| • | Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. 2 |
