All 19 Uses of
conscience
in
A Man for All Seasons
- Oh, your conscience is your own affair; but you're a statesman!†
Chpt 1
- Now explain how you as Councilor of England can obstruct those measures for the sake of your own, private, conscience.†
Chpt 1
- I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties …. they lead their country by a short route to chaos.†
Chpt 1
- (A practical proposition) Take your dagger and saw it from my shoulder, and I will laugh and be thankful, if by that means I can come with Your Grace with a clear conscience.†
Chpt 1
- Your conscience is your own affair; but you are my Chancellor!†
Chpt 1
- I'm not a convenient man, Meg—I've got an inconvenient conscience!†
Chpt 1
- One note on that brass conscience of yours and my daughter's walls are down.†
Chpt 1
- The King's a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.†
Chpt 2
- That's because you're not a man of conscience.†
Chpt 2 *
- If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man, the kind of man a man of conscience ought to destroy-and of course a bad man's blessing's not worth having.†
Chpt 2
- I find we've made ourselves the keepers of this conscience.†
Chpt 2
- MORE (Moved) And when we stand before God, and you are sent to Paradise for doing according to your conscience, and I am damned for not doing according to mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?†
Chpt 2
- I have no window to look into another man's conscience.†
Chpt 2
- While More's alive the King's conscience breaks into fresh stinking flowers every time he gets from bed.†
Chpt 2
- (Earnestly addressing him) In matters of conscience CROMWELL (Smiling bitterly) The conscience, the conscience ….†
Chpt 2
- (Earnestly addressing him) In matters of conscience CROMWELL (Smiling bitterly) The conscience, the conscience ….†
Chpt 2
- (Earnestly addressing him) In matters of conscience CROMWELL (Smiling bitterly) The conscience, the conscience ….†
Chpt 2
- (Turning back) In matters of conscience, the loyal subject is more bounden to be loyal to his conscience than to any other thing.†
Chpt 2
- (Turning back) In matters of conscience, the loyal subject is more bounden to be loyal to his conscience than to any other thing.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(conscience) feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner