Robert Bolt Quotes

He said there was gold here. He lied. He is not perfect.

If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth, but a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.

Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert, Bedouins and gods. And you're neither.

No doubt they'll sing in tune after the revolution.

And don't delude yourself this was rape. That would flatter us both.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.

El Oranz, truly for some men, nothing is written unless they write it.

Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.