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).
