Perry Mason
Mondays 9:00 PM on HBOPerry Mason Season 1 Episode 3: "Chapter Three" Quotes
[talking to a reporter] A whore? No, I wouldn't say that. Have you ever heard of a whore who killed her own baby? This is much worse than that.
Maynard
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?
Perry: I forgot to mention how fetching I find your shoes.
Nina: Uh-huh. What do you want?
If she's feeling guilty, it's because every man around her is saying she is.
Della
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.
There are a lot of Georges in the world, and a lot of women like you and me.
Sister Alice
They're squeezing the negro cop, E.B. He's sitting on something. I'd bet my house on it.
Perry
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
What kind of an accountant burns money?!
Perry
