Quotes

[Ohio8]

Perry: "I'm a lawyer, not a detective."

Mrs. Leeds: "Because he's a cheap, dirty crook with sticky fingers. Whoever murdered him did a civic service."

Mrs. Leeds: "I have a voice like a foghorn, and when I'm mad, I don't whisper."

Lt. Tragg: "Quite a character."

[MA]

[last lines]
Deborah Dearborn: But only to protect me. That's all he was trying to do. That's all that's really important.
Perry Mason: No, the courts will still have to...
Della Street: Oh, Perry. She means important to her. Johnny finally got up and did something.
Deborah Dearborn: What else is important to a woman?

[Ohio8]

Perry: "A toast to the things, for which there are no substitutes."

[MA]

Hamilton Burger: Your honor, this is just another wild-eyed, dramatic grandstand play for which counsel is so noted.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

“I don’t think much of people who prey on other people’s weaknesses – who peddle gossip, who blow up snapshots into dirty postcards.” – Perry Mason

[MA]

Hamilton Burger: Mr. Jefferson, am I correct in assuming that you're presenting yourself here as an example of the last stronghold of chivalry, sort of a modern Sir Galahad?
James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson: I am simply withholding information I have no right to reveal.
Hamilton Burger: Well then, will you state for us flatly here and now that Mrs. Patricia Taylor was not your companion of the evening on the night of the murder?
James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson: I can only tell you that I'll not name the lady.
Hamilton Burger: And while you pretend to protect the lady who shall be nameless, you're willing to vilify and besmirch Mrs. Patricia Taylor. I think we can use less gentlemen like you sir. No more questions.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

“Almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances.” – Perry Mason

[MA]

Della Street: [Proofreading letters prepared by a typist, addressing Mason] You let a dangling participle get by.
Perry Mason: Ha. You undangle it.