Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 434 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Bolt (1924–95) |
| QUOTATION: | Roper:So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law! [Sir Thomas] More:Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?… Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Devil |