WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg infertility – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bolt, Robert -- A Man for All Seasons, play, Act 1 (1960) https://wist.info/bolt-robert/74891/ https://wist.info/bolt-robert/74891/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:08:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74891 WOLSEY: That thing out there’s at least fertile, Thomas.

MORE: But she’s not his wife.

WOLSEY: No, Catherine’s his wife and she’s barren as brick. Are you going to pray for a miracle?

MORE: There are precedents.


Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
A Man for All Seasons, play, Act 1 (1960)
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Referring to Anne Boleyn, whom King Henry VIII wants to marry pending to a divorce from his present wife, Catherine of Aragon.

In Bolt's 1966 film adaptation (Source (Video); dialog verified), nearly the same lines are used:

WOLSEY: That thing out there; at least she's fertile.
MORE: But she's not his wife.
WOLSEY: No, Catherine's his wife and she's barren as a brick; are you going to pray for a miracle?
MORE: There are precedents.

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