The Case of the Haunted Husband Quotes

“Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision." Drake”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“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, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“And that," Mason observed, "is the secret of crime solution. You find the things that are unusual, the things which vary from the normal or average, and, using them as clues, you get away from generalities, and down to specific individual cases.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“The department has its own ideas of what constitutes justice. If we could uncover some evidence which would bolster the D.A's case, that would be justice. If we uncovered some evidence that wouldn't ... well, you know how it is.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“And I have thrown you out of the mood for further work?" Mason asked. "Not out of the mood for work. Out of sympathy with the script. Here are characters facing a dramatic moment in their lives. You can't put anything like that across on the screen unless the characters are real. You can't tell whether they are real unless you sympathize with them, unless you open a door and walk right into their lives. That is a subjective thought, intuition, telepathy, auto-hypnotism. Call it whatever you want to.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“There's a lot of telepathy, not individual telepathy so much as group telepathy, mind beating on mind, chaining you into a convention of business humdrum.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“A man does his best work when those around him are asleep.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“The house fairly oozed prosperity, a house which had been designed not only to be lived in but to be looked at. It had been built and decorated by a showman and for showmen.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“How does everybody in Hollywood work?" Drake asked. "By fits and starts.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband

“accident.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Haunted Husband