Erle Stanley Gardner

“You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, "patience isn't one of your virtues." "I didn't know," she said, "that patience WAS a…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“Dear Editor: It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. ”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“reason I am telling you all of this is that, according to Harrod, Fern Driscoll”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“will-have a tendency to”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“A nurse,” I said, “would be wearing a starched uniform, and she’d have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient’s…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“Della Street, Perry Mason’s confidential secretary, said, “A couple of lovebirds have strayed into the office without an appointment. They insist it’s…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“Events are like telephone poles, streaming back past the observation platform of a speeding train.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“We have graft today. A hundred years ago we had graft. We probably have more today than we had a hundred years…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial,”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Courage is the antidote to danger.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint.…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your…

— Erle Stanley Gardner