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.

For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxury and licentiousness.

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.