Sir Thomas More Quotes

This hath not offended the king.

I pray you, master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and my coming down let me shift for myself.

Is not this house as nigh heaven as my own?

Two evils-greed and faction-are the destruction of all justice.

Thus they say that nature herself prescribes for us a joyous life, in other words, pleasure, as the goal of our actions; and living according to her prescriptions is to be defined as virtue.

Hardly any of the women, who are a full half of the population, work; or if they do, then as a rule their husbands lie snoring in bed.