"I am commanded by the king to be brief, and since I am the king's obedient subject, brief I will be. I die His Majest…"

"[About his decision to not give away his daughter Meg to William Roper] See here Will. Two years ago you were a loyal…"

"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Wales?"

"Well, as a spaniel is to water so is a man to his own self. I will not give in because I oppose it—I do- not my pride…"

"When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their own public duties they lead their country b…"

"What is an oath then but words we say to God?"

"Since the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will now discharge my mind concerning the indictment…"

"If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man."

"I have no wife! Catherine is not my Queen! No priest can make her so!"

"[last lines of film] Thomas More's head stood on Traitor's Gate for a month until his daughter Meg claimed it in orde…"