Robert Bolt

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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.


— Robert Bolt


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Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.


— Robert Bolt


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


— Robert Bolt


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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!


— Robert Bolt


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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.


— Robert Bolt


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About Robert Bolt






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The BBC production was reviewed in the Listener on 5 August 1954. A revival in the late 1960s featured Roy Kinnear as Fitz-Oblong. Later with Doctor Zhivago he invested Boris Pasternak's novel with the characteristic Bolt sense of narrative and dialogue - human short and telling.

Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter.