Top 29 Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up with case that's what he calls on all fours and was decided seventy-five or a hundred years ago.
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#3. When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.
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#4. I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, "patience isn't one of your virtues."
"I didn't know," she said, "that patience WAS a virtue.
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#5. It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Then I'll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.
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#9. 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.
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#10. The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
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#11. I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice ... Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.
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#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.
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#16. If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
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#20. After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
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#21. Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.
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#23. To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.
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#24. It takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That's why people don't usually murder comparative strangers.
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#25. appraisal was evident in his glance. "Well, then," he said, "let's hear about
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#26. Reason I am telling you all of this is that, according to Harrod, Fern Driscoll
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#27. You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.
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#28. The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.
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#29. Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision." Drake
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