Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Old Boy Net (1983)

Peter Blythe: Samuel Ballard, Q.C.

Quotes 

• [Rumpole is defending a couple who are accused of keeping a brothel and blackmailing their clients. He approaches Ballard who is prosecuting, to see if he would be amenable to dropping the blackmail charge if his clients plead guilty to "keeping a house of ill-repute". Ballard refuses indignantly] 

  Samuel Ballard, Q.C. : [cynically]  "Blessed are the blackmailers, for they shall walk out without a stain on their characters"? Is that your version of the Sermon on the Mount, Rumpole?

  Horace Rumpole : "Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion" - that's William Blake. I'll give you another quotation: "I come not to call the righteous but the sinners to repentence" - Matthew 9, verse 13.