Robert Bolt

More: "Buy a Man with suffering?"

Rich: "Impose suffering, and offer him--escape."

More: "Oh. For a moment I thought you were being profound."

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

Margaret: "Father, that man's bad."

More: "There is no law against that."

Roper: "There is! God's law!"

More: "Then God can arrest him."

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

Roper: "So now you give the Devil the benefit of the law!"

More: "Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?"

Roper: "I'd cut down every law in England to do that!"

More: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

Cromwell: "You look depressed."

Rich: "I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence."

Cromwell: "You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been that important to you."

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons