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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.
ATTRIBUTION: ROBERT BOLT, A Man for All Seasons, act I, p. 39 (1967).
SUBJECTS: Devil