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Top 20 Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes (2025 Update)

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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.”

1. “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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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “It’s a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.”

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

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.”

3. “Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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!”

4. “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!”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “The reason men don’t know the law of life is because they’re afraid to look Eternity in the face.”

7. “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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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “Courage is the antidote to danger.”

8. “Courage is the antidote to danger.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “Events are like telephone poles, streaming back past the observation platform of a speeding train.”

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

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful.”

11. “There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.”

12. “To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.”

14. “Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision.” Drake.”

15. “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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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.”

16. “When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “I like loose clothes, loose company, and loose talk, and to hell with the people who don’t.”

17. “I like loose clothes, loose company, and loose talk, and to hell with the people who don’t.”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “A nurse,” I said, “would be wearing a starched uniform, and she’d have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient’s mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence.”

18. “A nurse,” I said, “would be wearing a starched uniform, and she’d have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient’s mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “I told you just what she was – all velvet and claws!”

19. “I told you just what she was – all velvet and claws!”

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Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner Quote: “But don’t they have more sunshine here than they do in San Francisco? Don’t you have lots of fog?” “Fog!” the man exclaimed. “Why that’s the thing that makes San Francisco. When that fog comes rolling in from the ocean, it peps you up. It’s bracing, stimulating. There’s a lot of rush and bustle in connection with San Francisco. Down here, people seem to have the hookworm. You girls really don’t live here, do you?” “What makes you think we don’t?” Della said. “Too much class – too much pep.”

21. “But don’t they have more sunshine here than they do in San Francisco? Don’t you have lots of fog?” “Fog!” the man exclaimed. “Why that’s the thing that makes San Francisco. When that fog comes rolling in from the ocean, it peps you up. It’s bracing, stimulating. There’s a lot of rush and bustle in connection with San Francisco. Down here, people seem to have the hookworm. You girls really don’t live here, do you?” “What makes you think we don’t?” Della said. “Too much class – too much pep.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

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