Thomas More Quotes & Sayings

“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”

“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”

“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

“For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.”

“There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.”

“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

“And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.”

“Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.”

“See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.”

“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.”