Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

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.