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1 " Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case Of The Vagabond Virgin (Perry Mason, #32)
2 " I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case Of The Careless Cupid (Perry Mason, #79)
3 " Courage is the antidote to danger. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Grinning Gorilla (Perry Mason, #40)
4 " You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He believed a dollar represented a token of work performed, that men were given these tokens to hold until they needed the product of work performed by some other man, that anyone who tried to get a token without giving his best work in return was an economic counterfeiter. He felt that most of our depression troubles had been caused by a universal desire to get as many tokens as possible in return for as little work as possibly - that too many men were trying to get lost of tokens without doing any work. He said men should cease to think in terms of tokens and think, instead, only in terms of work performed as conscientiously as possible. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Perjured Parrot (Perry Mason, #14)
5 " Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools. "
6 " We’re a dramatic people,” Perry Mason said slowly. “We’re not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It’s a national craving. We’re geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Howling Dog (Perry Mason, #4)
7 " it takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That’s why people don’t usually murder comparative strangers. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Silent Partner (Perry Mason, #17)
8 " To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger. "
9 " When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear. "
10 " reason I am telling you all of this is that, according to Harrod, Fern Driscoll "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll (Perry Mason, #55)
11 " There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Sulky Girl (Perry Mason, #2)
12 " The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structure, regardless of what goal you may want to achieve. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Haunted Husband (Perry Mason, #18)
13 " The best fighters don’t worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking. "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Baited Hook (Perry Mason, #16)
14 " Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Rolling Bones (Perry Mason, #15)
15 " Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision." Drake "
16 " overboard, "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Amorous Aunt (Perry Mason, #69)
17 " will-have a tendency to "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Reluctant Model (Perry Mason, #66)
18 " Angeles in the plain-clothes division, "
― Erle Stanley Gardner , The Case of the Crooked Candle (Perry Mason, #24)
19 " as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. "
20 " appraisal was evident in his glance. “Well, then,” he said, “let’s hear about "
