AMFAS test
More
"A man should go where he won't be tempted. Look, Richard, see this. (He hands him a silver cup)"
More (to Norfolk when he asks him to join him in fellowship)
"And when we stand before God, and you are sent to Paradise for doing according to your conscience, and I will be damned for not doing according to mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?"
Norfolk (to More when he says they can't be friends anymore)
"And who are you? Goddammit man, its disproportionate! We're supposed to be the arrogant ones, the proud, splenetic ones- and we've all given in! Why must you stand out? You'll break my heart.
Cromwell
"Are you coming in my direction Rich" (asking Rich if he will be in his side in this great debate over the divorce)
Cromwell
"Boatman, have you a license?"
More
"Death...comes for us all, my lords...."
Rich
"Every man has his price"
More, questioning rich a new title as attorney general for Wales
"For Wales? Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world...But for Wales!
Rich (doesn't like asking Cromwell for help)
"I'm adrift. Help me."
Common man, closing lines of the play
"I'm breathing...are you breathing too?...it's nice, isn't it? It isn't difficult to keep alive, friends- just don't make trouble- or if you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that's expected."
Rich
"I'm lamenting, I've lost my innocence" (choosing evil)
Margaret; "a hero"
"In any state that was half good, you would be raised up high. Not here, for what you've done already. It's not your fault the states 3 quarters bad. Then if you elect to suffer for it, you elect yourself..."
Henry
"It is my bounded duty to put away the Queen, and all the popes back to St. Peter shall not come between me and my duty! How is it that you cannot see? Everyone else does
More
"Listen Roper. Two years ago you were a passionate Churchman; now you're a passionate- Lutheran. We must just pray that when your head's finished turning, your face is to the front again
More
"No sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what's legal not what's right. And I'll stick to what's legal"
Alice
"No, and if I'm to lose my rank and fall to housekeeping I want to know the reason; so make a state,net now"
Cromwell to rich after rich say eh is almost sure he is not religious
"No, it's not like that, it's much more a matter of convenience. The normal so, of administration is to keep steady this factor of convenience"
Cromwell
"Now normally when a man wants to change his woman, you let him if it's convenient and prevent him if it's not"
Steward after Thomas reigns and need a to release his help
"Now, damn me, isn't that them a,l over! Miss?...he...miss? Miss me? What's in me for him to miss?"
More (to jailer)
"Oh, sweet Jesus! These plain, simple men!"
Steward
"Oh, when I can't touch the. Bottom I'll go blind, deaf, and dumb. And that's more than I earn in a fortnight!"
More
"Silence gives consent"
Common man says this about more
"Some say that's good and some say that bad, but I say he can't help it- and that's bad...because some day someone's going to ask him for something that he wants to keep; and he'll be out of practice
More
"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"
Margaret
"Then say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise"
Success (said by more)
"Whereof at their death their ___________ is uncertain" (talking about kings)
More say to rich
"Why not be a teacher? You would be a fine teacher. Perhaps even a great one." Who says this to who?
Norfolk (when More says they cannot be friends anymore to protect him)
"You might as well advise a man to change the color of his hair! I'm fond of you, and there it is! You're fond of me and there it is!
Water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
More says when a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands, like...
Henry
Quotes Leviticus , "thou shall not uncover the nakedness of my sister's wife"
Rich
Repeats the prisoner's (More's) words- "'parliament has not the competence'." Or words to that effect"
Henry
Says "I dance superlatively. That's a dancer's leg Margaret!"
Alice
Says "Young Roper. I've just seen young Roper! On my horse!"
Wolsey
Says More should've been a cleric
Henry
Says Norfolk has a wrestlers leg
Roper
Tells More "I can buy a clock, sir"
Cromwell
The king's ear
Wolsey
says Catherine is as barren as a brick
More; less than a tennis court
says the little, little area where he can rule himself is less than___________
Thomas More
Adamantine sense of his own self
Thomas More, a Christian saint
Any way, the above must serve as my explanation and apology for treating_________ as a hero of selfhood
Rich
Appointed attorney general for wales, as informed by Cromwell
Henry
Asks Thomas if a man needs a pope to tell him when he's sinned
More
Believes statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties...they lead their country by a short route to chaos
The 16th century is the century for the common man. Like all other centuries.
Common man's proposition
Catherine; traitors
Henry says "I have no queen!________is not my wife and priest can make her so, and they say that she is my wife are not only liars...but_______! Mind it, Thomas!"
More; common sense would make us good and greed would make us saintly
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and _______would make us saintly"
Wolsey
If you could just see the facts straight in, without that horrible moral squint ; with just a little common sense, you could have been a statesman (this man is telling more he could've been a Statesman)
Common man
It is,perverse! To start a play made up of Kings and Cardinal sin speaking costumes and intellectuals embroidered mouths, with me
Roper
Must everything be made convenient? I am not a convenient man
Steward
Warns "not to get out of your depth"
