Perry Mason
Mondays 9:00 PM on HBOPerry Mason Season 1 Quotes
This church can no longer afford to teeter on the whims of hysterical women.
Baggerly
Perry: So, Virg. There's something I want to show ya.
Virgil: Is it, um, pornography?
Perry: No.
Virgil: It's just, you guys tell me all these stories about clandestine meetings, and tailing dames, and cheating wives.
Pete: I could go get some if you want, Virg.
Virgil: Pale formaldehyde, dead, putrid bodies and the monotony of existence does a number on a man's virility.
George Gannon did not kill himself. There was a fourth man.
A boxful of snakes from our own people. You have to let me protect you. Let me take care of you.
Birdy
Sometimes I think this is no longer my world.
E.B.
Matthew: You really think Emily was a part of it?
Herman: She laid with the man who killed your son. You heard her say guilty. Consider the cold light, Matthew.
Matthew: I came home mean sometimes. Maybe that's why she went with that guy.
Herman: It's in our blood. We have a weakness for degenerate femininity.
Matthew: My mother is not a degenerate. While you were here, living it up, my mother and me? We did with nothing. It's not easy. What we've been doing here. It's not easy, this deal.
Herman: It was cowardly of me. It was not Christian, and I would like to atone for that.
You're all in big, fucking trouble.
Della
If she's feeling guilty, it's because every man around her is saying she is.
Della
There are a lot of Georges in the world, and a lot of women like you and me.
Sister Alice
Drake: Private white folk mostly avoid this neighborhood. I haven't seen more than one chalky fella in a cheap-ass suit lyin' in the gutter with his throat cut.
Perry: Well, fortunately, you're here to make sure that doesn't happen.
Drake: Mister, you only think you see me.
Justice for Charlie Dodson; the noose for his mother.
Maynard
Nina: The crime scene report you wanted.
Police Chief: It's for this asshole.
Perry: I like your nails.
Nina: I like 'em too.
Police Chief: Nails? What are you? A fag?